Quotes About Persistence

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Plodding wins the race.

Little by little does the trick.

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

To try and to fail, is not laziness

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

Of course, if you've made up your mind about it, you'll find an answer to everything.

Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

Bagi sebagian orang kebenaran itu penting, sebab mereka dapat menerimanya. Mereka dapat menghadapi kebenaran dengan tabah - ketabahan yang hanya dimiliki orang-orang yang mengharapkan kehidupan yang cerah.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.

Life is a difficult business... It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end one wonders: 'Was it worth while?' - Mrs. Lorrimer, Cards on the Table

I suppose that one can, if one has the determination, always get something out of life.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use." "And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!