My failure during the first five or six years of my art training to get set in the right direction and the disappointment which it caused me drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.

Parents it seems have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus but persistence is what wins out.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Survival in the cool economics of biology means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.