Quotes About Persistence

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

He who limps still walks.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Genius is only great patience.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.