Quotes About Persistence

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

Where there's a will there's a way.

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.