Quotes About Persistence

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.

I'm not perfect but I always try to give of my best.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

The most important thing is to try to do your best.

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.

The only failure is not to try.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.

I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.