Quotes About Effort and Persistence

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.