Persistence and Progress - Kevin Rose

The most important thing is patience: to try and to try and to try until it comes right. — William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Faulkner’s line places patience not at the margins of success, but at its very core. By repeating “to try and to try and to try,” he turns persistence into a rhythm, suggesting that achievement rarely arrives in a single...

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting. — Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins

This quote emphasizes the importance of taking initiative as a crucial first step towards achieving success. It suggests that rather than waiting for opportunities to arise, one must actively seek them out.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

At first glance, Louis L'Amour’s line sounds bleak, as though it pauses at the very edge of defeat. Yet the sentence pivots on its final promise: the moment we believe everything is over may actually mark the threshold o...

Quietly persist, for great things are not created suddenly. — Epictetus

Epictetus

Epictetus compresses a profound truth into a few words: meaningful accomplishment rarely appears in a dramatic instant. Instead, it emerges through steady, often unnoticed effort sustained over time.

But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits. — Eknath Easwaran

Eknath Easwaran

Eknath Easwaran frames patience not as a fixed personality trait but as a capacity that develops over time. From the outset, his comparison to building muscle changes the way we think about self-control: instead of waiti...

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose and of action over a long period of time. — Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen begins with a blunt truth: getting noticed is difficult, but staying worthy of notice is even harder. In that contrast, he shifts the conversation from momentary success to endurance.