Quotes About Persistence

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

I am constant to my purposes...

Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about.

Retire? That's ridiculous. What does it for you is to have something to get up for in the morning. Now, they say, you should retire at 70. When I was 70, I still had pimples.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

Richard Whitney wrote his own requiem for the Crash. "A thing compounded of both wisdom and folly, of both heroism and fright, of stubborn persistence and impatient irresolution, of tragically shattered hopes and ambitions and of incongruous and unique episodes not without at times a certain humorous aspect.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: forget about it. Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. One day, you will glance up at your collection of Japanese literature, or trip over the solar oven you built, and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

The whole meaning of my life, which was jammed until midnight with fifteen different jobs and places, was writing. It took me a long time to know that, but I know it now.

We can try, but

The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.

So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.

Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am I still one of them?) is life. All we want to believe in is the persistence and vitality of life. Faced with the choice between death and the merest hint of life, what scrap, what token wouldn't we cling to in order to keep that belief? A leaf? A single moist, green leaf? That will do, that will be enough.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

Grant Barrett

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.