Quotes About Persistence

What does not change / is the will to change.

One sees more clearly in the fog because one has to look harder.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

If something seems particularly hard, there is usually no value in staying up all night and staring at it. Take a break, take a nap, have a snack, explain what you are having a problem with to someone (or perhaps your dog), and then come back to it with fresh eyes.

You can not shoe a flea," Russians say. Whoever coined the proverb forgot about poets.

While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell Knitting the socks Of your life.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

The only meaningful life is that which is deepened by carrying through these commitments, living through the dead periods in order to lay the foundations for the creative ones.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?

He thinks that, even if you have a great idea, there have to be trials and tribulations, errors and failures, a dark night of the soul, a slog, a time in the desert, a fallow period, a period of quiet, a period of silent and earnest and frustrated toiling before emerging, victorious, into the sunshine and acclaim.

It's the way things are. You do the cop show. You get your little check. You wonder: Can you change it? Can you be the one who actually breaks through?

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.