Quotes About Persistence

We are in a rough situation—but, if you really want to think about it, ain't nothing new about that. That's just exactly, daughter, when you do not give up. You can't give up.

Nothing ever goes away

I guess it's true, what they used to tell me-- if you can get through the worst, you'll see the best

Sometimes I think I'll just give up. But – how do you give up?

Whatever the Europeans may actually think of artists, they have killed enough of them off by now to know that they are as real-and as persistent- as rain, snow, taxes or businessmen.

Fonny is working on the wood, on the stone, whistling, smiling. And, from far away, but coming nearer, the baby cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries, cries like it means to wake the dead.

There is something fantastic in the spectacle I now present to myself of having run so far, so hard, across the ocean even, only to find myself brought up short once more before the bulldog in my own backyard — the yard, in the meantime, having grown smaller and the bulldog bigger.

The people did not go away, of course; once a people arise, they never go away (a fact which should be included in the Marine handbook).

If I could make you stay, I would," he shouted. "If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would." He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. "One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

They knew that they had witnessed a beginning and now they would not cease to watch until they saw the end.

Write. Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say. If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

while the excluded begin to realize, having endured everything, that they can endure everything.

Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.

And in Uncle Tom's Cabin we may find foreshadowing of both: the formula created by the necessity to find a lie more palatable than the truth has been handed down and memorized and persists yet with a terrible power.

We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges," said Bourque. "Along

The envisioned future should be so exciting in its own right that it would continue to keep the organization motivated even if the leaders who set the goal disappeared.

years. What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life. In

In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.

12 In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, "I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.

A crucial aspect of purpose is that it's always worked towards, but never fully achieved, like chasing the earth's horizon or pursuing a guiding star.

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL