Quotes About Persistence

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.

Life is a mortal maze...

Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.

Don't spend too much of your life avoiding the sharp edges of shattered dreams.

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

If all the economists in this country were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion.

No living thing is indestructible, except the mosquito that you try to swat in your bedroom at 3 o'clock in the morning.

The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Pray so hard that your words glow in the dark.