Quotes About Persistence

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. Oh, I know you've seen advertisements for lawn products that are supposed to kill crabgrass, but don't believe them. Crabgrass thrives on these products.

Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions thrive; the grass may all curl up and die, but they'll remain alive. I've tried about a million plans, to have the vile things slain; and all the schemes were also-rans, and all my efforts vain.

Those who have had experience with type are aware of its satanic persistence towards error.

In writing, you either stick with it and keep revising until it's done, no matter how long it takes — or set it aside a few years until you've distanced yourself enough to get it right. The wait is just as excruciating as the work.

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Paper endures everything.

Paper is patient.

"And when once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." "But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any other way you can." "To be sure... I have seen a litherary gentleman in a sponging house do crack things on the wall, with a bit of burnt stick..."

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.

Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.

Perseverance is everything.

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.