Quotes About Persistence

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

"Go to the d—l!" said the disappointed ghost-hunter. An hour—two—rolled on, and still no spectral visitation... and when the turret-clock sounded at length the hour of three, Ingoldsby, whose patience and grog were alike exhausted, sprang from his chair, saying— "This is all infernal nonsense, my good fellow. Deuce of any ghost shall we see to-night..."

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Saccharin was discovered in 1879 when a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University found his bread extra sweet one night and figured that something from the lab must have followed him home. Incredibly, he set about to tasting nearly everything in his lab—and lived to find o-benzoic sulfimide—saccharin by any other name.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.

And we will persist in chasing the impossible until we are no more.

In the end, though, his insistence that we must imagine Sisyphus as happy is as impractical as it is feculent.

No wonder the man wins all his battles: He doesn't recognize defeat!

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.