When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.