Quotes About Persistence

If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.

Por una razón u otra, el hombre busca el milagro y para lograrlo es capaz de abrirse paso entre la sangre.

The thinking that gets you nowhere takes you everywhere.

A simple phrase may record a year's struggle.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drives me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

I had to learn, as Balzac did, that one must write volumes before signing ones own name.

One must have the patience of radium buried beneath a Himalayan peak.

Las personas son como los piojos: se te meten bajo la piel y se entierran en ella. Te rascas y te rascas hasta hacerte sangre, pero no puedes despiojarte de una vez.

Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common Hours.

The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,   Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin,   Each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done,   Has earned a night's repose.

The heights by which great men reach are not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept went toiling upwards through the night. It may not be exact but it always how I remember it.

If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Learn To Labor and to 'WAIT

If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.

No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.