Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
(n.) Alt. of Persistency
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
You know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force.
When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That...
A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure;...
A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.
As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and the doing.
Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.
I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer tired. I went to the typewriter and sat before it. My thought was to write a sen...
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.
Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installa...
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
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