Quotes About Persistence

He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Water flows humbly to the lowest level.Nothing is weaker than water,Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,Nothing surpasses it.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.

I came because as soon as we figured out where you might be, nothing would've kept me from finding you. Nothing.

Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through." Lucan (in response to Dante's request for advice) - Kiss of Crimson

Don't push me, Sia." She shook her head. "I think a push is exactly what you need.

Aqui o Niko seguiu o Renegado durante uns quarenta quilometros...a pé - acrescentou Brock,rolando os olhos castanho-escuros - Eu tinha o Rover atestado e à espera na esquina,mas aqui o atleta decidiu ir a pé." pag.71

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.

This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.

Push yourself, again and again, into positions that say 'no' to your opponent. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

son. Kareem blew us off, but you were very nice." The son was a grown man, a successful attorney in Los Angeles. His father was the CEO of the company Magic was soliciting. "My son is 29 years old now," the man said, "and he still has that picture on his wall." As Magic walked out of the meeting with a new multimillion-dollar client in his portfolio, he thought to himself, "See, Kareem? It could have been you.

I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.

Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away.

Antonio Machado (Spanish poet): Your walking, your footprints are the road and nothing else; there is no road, walker; You make the road by walking.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.