Quotes About Persistence

It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

Ba?kald?ran olmak, her zaman devrimci olmak de?ildir. Ço?unlukla, bata?a daha fazla saplanmak demektir.

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

Pas a pas se va luenh.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

I WILL NOT BE A DINOSAUR POO!

PerTIsHUN to the STURveY!

You'll see the "going big" theme running through everything I talk about in this section, as well as the rest of the book. You may be just

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

So just keep a-goin'-you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

When the Viennese doctor Ignaz Semmelweis insisted that delivery room doctors and medical students wash their hands before attending their patients, he was ridiculed, even though the practice dramatically reduced death from puerperal sepsis. In 1865, when Semmelweis died, his simple but radical idea was still discounted.

People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

My timing isn't the best, but this isn't a Texas hailstorm that's over in a minute.

I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

Only super-efforts count.