Quotes About Persistence

All good research—whether for science or for a book—is a form of obsession.

Fletcher was the instigator of a fad for extremely thorough chewing. We are not talking about British Prime Minister William Gladstone's thirty-two chews per bite. We are talking about this: "One-fifth of an ounce of the midway section of the young garden onion, sometimes called 'challot,' has required seven hundred and twenty-two mastications before disappearing through involuntary swallowing." (More on chewing and the "oral device" in chapter 7.)

You will hear no a lot. It's about not giving up and having the absurd belief that someone, somewhere will say yes. I don't go away easily.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?

Like one who, on a lonely road,    Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on,    And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend    Doth close behind him tread.*  * Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.

Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Still, it haunted me.

I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties.

La vida es obstinada... se aferra con más fuerza allí donde más se odia.

Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise.

Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I

Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER

If misfortune come against us we must fight with her; we must cast her aside, and still go on to find out that which it is our nature to desire.

And so here I am ! I continue to exist—to see one day succeed the other ; to dread night, but more to dread morning, and hail another cheerless day.

Masashi Kishimoto

Rejection is a part of any man's life. If you can't accept and move past rejection, or at least use it as writing material - you're not a real man. -Master Jiraiya