Quotes About Persistence

He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same

Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Always do your absolute best. When you do your absolute best you can ALWAYS Expect To Win.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

hard to believe that the world had ended and yet somehow these ridiculous activities kept grinding on.

the world won't come to me,' he used to say, 'so I must go to it'—

Il mondo non mi verrà incontro, perciò devo andargli incontro io.

That maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?

Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.

Ma il pensiero di lei mi affliggeva al punto che non riuscivo a dimenticarla più di quanto avrei potuto dimenticare un mal di denti.

Hit the ground running; consolidate control; ask questions of everyone wherever you go; manage by wandering around; determine the basic problems of each organization and hit them head-on; when attacked, counterattack; stick to your guns; spend your political capital to reach your goals; and then when your work is stymied or done, find a way out.

There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused

Roosevelt repeatedly "brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.

It was a grim and evil fate, but I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield for any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The young man never seemed to know what idleness was," marveled Cutler, "and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some English classic or some abstruse book on natural history in his hands.

If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!

I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

That's what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable…" Her eyes reddened and filled, and again she determinedly blinked them clear.

That's what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.