Quotes About Persistence

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

Boog et al, 2001, p.1117).

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si când ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

If you are at least trying to make sense of the senseless, then you are moving toward the Light. What we live through and continue in spite of is our spiritual lesson.

If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.

To be successful, work hard; and when things get tough, work harder.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

King Kong would have made it to the top if only he had taken the elevator.