Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Plodding wins the race.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.

If you can't do something today, it will happen tomorrow or day after. If you are physically healthy and keep trying to achieve your goals, you will achieve what you want sooner or later.

It really has been just take it one day a time, one fight at a time, one training camp at a time, one year at a time.

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.