Quotes About Persistence

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!