persistent action Quotes

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

I intend to act forever if I can.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.