Quotes About Persistence

Il ciriveddro è 'na gran camurria di machina che non sulo non s'arresta mai, ma t'obbliga a pinsari a quello che voli lui

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I said, 'Never. Because I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.' That shut her up for a minute. Then she asked where I went to college.

So the White House wants to eat the Washington Post, so what? It will be wearing on you, but the end is in sight. It's building and they see it and they know that they can't stop the real story from coming out. That's why they're so desperate. Just be careful, yourselves and the paper, and wait them out, don't jump too fast. Be careful and don't be too anxious.

That was the difference between him and Woodward. Woodward went into a garage to find a source who could tell him what Nixon's men were up to. Bernstein walked in to find an eight-pound chain cut neatly in two and his bike gone.

Guess I'll have to come back another day and try again, Roy thought. That's what a real Florida boy would do.

sucking on a football.

for it, but the sonofabitch couldn't

I think I'm able to explain things because understanding wasn't entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly I had to work to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out. The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never see the mechanics of understanding.

She was determined to be as tough-minded as possible, without abandoning the sense of wonder that was driving her in the first place.

Some thrive for time, while most quickly vanish.

Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the brachistochrone problem, specifying the curve connecting two points displaced from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by gravity, would fall in the shortest time.

I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it.

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion.

life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep on going.

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep going.

If you stick around long enough you're either forgotten or remembered too much.

They may be years ahead of the human race but we've got one thing they haven't -- bloodymindedness! It built this planet. (UFO: Time Lash)

prayer and persistence, the good Lord will provide.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.