Quotes About Persistence

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

The first thing to get in your head is that every single Girl can be caught - and that you'll catch her if You set your toils right. Birds will sooner fall dumb in Springtime, Cicadas in summer, or a hunting-dog Turn his back on a hare, than a lover's bland inducements Can fail with a woman, Even one you suppose Reluctant will want it.

To wish for what you want is not enough; With ardent longing you must strive for it.

The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.

Work, the hobby of the philosopher and the poor man's friend.

No sir, said Mr Molloy. I'm mighty sorry I can't meet you in any way, but the fact is I'm all fixed up in Oil. Oil's my dish. I began in Oil and I'll end up in Oil. I wouldn't be happy outside of Oil. Oh? said Mr Carmody, regarding this Human Sardine with as little open hostility as he could manage on the spur of the moment.

All the way here he was talking about what he was going to do if he ever found you again. And now you tell me he did find you. What happened? Didn't he eat you?' 'No, miss.' 'Probably on a diet.

The reality remains that teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with sixteen sets of tennis and a few rounds of golf and then comes down to dinner as fresh as a daisy, expecting you to take an intelligent interest in Freud.

I don't get your drift. I will continue snowing.

More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help. He seemed to so marked an extent to lack snap and finish. With infinite toil, you manoeuvred him into a position where all he had to do was charge ahead, and he didn't charge ahead, but went off sideways, missing the objective completely.

I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario.

I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn thing after another.

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

Aunt Agatha is like an elephant- not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.

I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. You

One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.