Quotes About Persistence

You have to sit by the river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

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If you are successful, someday you'll have a hard time even remembering what year you launched. If you are unsuccessful, it won't matter.

Don't fear the impact of quitting something. What you do after you quit is more important than the fact that you quit. Do you reboot, remake, and restart, or do you give up?

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don't see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.

Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!

Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and stop. You do not do that. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them.

Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

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The first thing is to have the will; the rest is technique.

Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.

And you'd get point A followed by points B and C, and on the one hand F, and on the other foot G, until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead, each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across

Make haste, Beloved, be thou like an hart On mountains spicy sweet; And I, on those High Places where thou art, Will follow on hinds' feet; As close behind the hart, there leaps the roe, So where thou goest, I will surely go. That, as perhaps you know, is the last verse of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. But for Grace and Glory it was the beginning of a new song altogether.

But the past is like a shadow, always trying to catch up.

My part, was the prompt reply, was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates. But he could not find it out.

I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing. Please yourself, said the old duck, and she went away.

Delayed is not forgotten!