Quotes About Persistence

The decision would depend on economic developments, especially on the persistence of inflation.

Tim's energy and ability to concentrate for long stretches always astonished me.

In the end, despite some frictions, I

But I was determined to go further if necessary.

I knew it was a hard sell, but I wanted the idea to remain under consideration.

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

maintained for a considerable period.

but I didn't have the patience for its complexities.

Aunts, I have learned, never admit defeat. In the face of overwhelming forces, or incontestable facts, they simply change tack. Had Napoleon been an aunt, he would never have done anything so vulgar as to 'retreat' from Moscow. Rather, he would have framed his return to Paris casually as a question of clothing and etiquette, noting it was unseasonably cold for October and declaring that–like fish and family–armies of invasion go off after three days.

The fight against entropy is never over.

There's no such thing as a lost cause.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Knock me down, it's all in vain I get right back on my feet again

Not every record needs to be a hit record. It's not meant to do that, and people's careers go through cycles and if you want to be the last man standing, you have to be fierce and tenacious and you just have to stand there and you have to let it do its thing.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.

Nessun fenomeno al mondo può impedire al sole di risorgere.

Era la enfermedad general, ya crónica, que se agravaba. Mas no por ello moría el enfermo: España tenía fibra y agallas para resistir la tanta calamidad; su sobriedad de mendigo le garantizaba la existencia; su pasividad fatalista le permitía seguir arrastrándose y dando tumbos, hasta que vinieran hombres y tiempos mejores, los cuales... ¡ay! también podría suceder que no vinieran.

No hay mal que cien años dure.

But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.