Quotes About Persistence

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Time and Patience.

No es un problema.

Ahora por favor.

kills a cop, the net gets big and wide. That net

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Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

I'm a detective. I ask questions until I like the answers.

There I sat and waited. Alone in the dark. Because that's what detectives do. We sit. We watch. And we wait. Sooner or later something happens. It always does.

Greatly begin! though thou hast time But for a line, be that sublime -- Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

He drove. That was what he did. What he'd always do.

The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.

You must want it enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. – Phyllis Whitney

Are you a real writer? Then keep writing. And don't stop. Ever.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Winston Churchill: "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as a writer.

Finish your novel, because you learn more that way than any other.

All desires save one are fleeting, but that one lasts for ever. Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhere and forsake anything for wisdom;

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

you can lose every round of a fight, just don't lose the last one.