Quotes About Persistence

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

You can't have genius without patience.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Genius is eternal patience.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.