Quotes About Persistence

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

45 years is a long time to do anything, let alone for a rock band to play together. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and proud that we've kept the high standards.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.

when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one's life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.

She would spend the rest of her life wondering about him . . . She would wonder if he ever thought of her . . .

I am going to learn it if I must die in the attempt.

When something that needs to be done is impossible to do," Estelle said, "I have always found that the only possible course of action is to do it anyway.

And he began to claim his reward in thorough and leisurely fashion.

Mr. Sinclair is here now, and I mean to have him.

Peace is hard won, and the effort to keep it is ongoing. We must never become complacent in life. We must never feel we have arrived and there is nothing left to do but enjoy.

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

one must not give in to defeat after just one try, or even, perhaps, after twenty.

I cannot now believe that we allowed all those things to happen to us without blazing a trail back to each other. I cannot quite understand why I did not fight my way through hell, though God knows I believed I had done all I could. I was so damned young.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

Set a goal that is so powerful it eclipses every disappointment, doubt, doomsayer, or distraction that you encounter along the way.