Quotes About Persistence

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.

I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.

Part time christian cannot defeat a full time devil

Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time

their histories remain.

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.