Quotes About Persistence

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Nelson DeMille

do. As a wise man (me) once said, "The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Nelson DeMille

It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Nelson DeMille

Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa. É obra de séculos.

He could not elucidate it any further for her, and they drove on to the big hardware store. It had only a few customers, and very few assistants. They left the baby in the car and went through to the gardening department, and searched some time for an assistant

He is a good man, and will climb up to the Six Blissful Seats. He has known sin and trouble and it has not made him bitter; he has known sorrow and it has not made him sad. In these last months that have been granted to him he is trying to do good, not

Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!

You may be able to write a novel, you may not . You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

interaction of these few civilizations with one another, as much as with their own environments, has been among the most important drivers of historical change.10 The striking thing about these interactions is that authentic civilizations seem to remain true unto themselves for very long periods, despite outside influences. As Fernand Braudel put it: 'Civilization is in fact the longest story of all . . . A civilization . . . can persist through a series of economies or societies.

Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

Let no man, therefore, lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for, as I said in my Preface, men are born, and live, and die, always in accordance with the same rules.

Dove c'è una grande volontà non possono esserci grandi difficoltà.

the secret was to devote yourself entirely to one end, to one goal, and to work every day toward this goal, to put all your energy and imagination into the one endeavor. The only necessity was that this goal be unattainable.

Henry was never able to help McDonald crack Lufthansa—the