Persistence Quotes
"Persistence has summed up my whole career. It’s summed up my whole life. Just keep going. Just keep moving forward. No matter what obstacle comes in your way, just keep moving forward"
"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying"
"Keep moving even when it feels useless"
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer"
"Every day you have to renew your commitment."
"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
"The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him seeking materialization"
"Ain't no candle that I can't hold"
"In spite of everything I shall rise again I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"
"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something"
"I'll do this all day. Or at least until someone's like, 'Okay, there's other things we've got to do.'"
"You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough"
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance"
"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success"
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts"
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"
"Be a relentless operator."
"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time "
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
"Never give up; great things take time."