Quotes About Persistence

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Dreams are what keep a man going.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Don't be silly. People never stop looking for love. Yeah, some of them don't even stop AFTER they've found it.

damos mil caídas y tropiezos y erramos el camino por no poner los ojos -como digo- en el verdadero camino. Parece que nunca se anduvo, según se nos hace nuevo.