Quotes About Persistence

Life is not in the habit of producing just what we want when we want it. For every exciting, challenging task there are usually a hundred dull ones to be tackled. Detective Thanet- Puppet for a Corpse

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.

I will understand perfectly if you don't want to answer, but I will just keep pestering you until you do.

Ese es el problema con los chiflados: se les ocurre una gran idea que funciona de verdad y luego esperan que les financies durante años mientras ellos se dedican a estudiar la topografía de su ombligo.

The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?

Never mind," said Ford. "Rome wasn't burned in a day.

She worked out once and for all where the Land Rover had to be, and worked it out with such ruthless determination that the Land Rover would hardly dare not to be there

always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Come off it, Mr. Dent," he said, "you can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely." He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How

Then Frankie said: 'Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?

aphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.

Rome wasn't burned in a day.

Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere.

They obstinately persisted in their absence

Here's a good trick, let's see how they cope with this. Oh, look! They've managed to find a way of climbing the tree. I didn't think they'd be able to do that. All right, let's see them get the thing open. Hmm, so they've found out how to temper steel now, have they? Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Next time they go up that tree, I'll have a dragon waiting for them at the bottom.

This must be Thursday, I could never get the hang of Thursdays." Arthur Dent

The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly.

DüÅŸlerin f?rlat?l?p at?lsa ve yerle bir olsa bile…. Yürümeye devam et, yüreÄŸinde umutla yürü…

To those who said that they had a feeling soap wasn't found in mines, the Captain had ventured to suggest that perhaps that was because no one had looked hard enough, and this possibility had been reluctantly acknowledged.