Quotes About Persistence

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)

I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my career, I was always in the game.

Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.

if you have a positive attitude and strive to give your best, eventually, you will overcome problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

If each of us would dream big dreams, approach life with hope and confidence, and persevere until our dreams come true, then we would not only be more like Walt, but we would become the people God created us to be.

The moral to this story is that consistent effort yields predictable success.

It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

If all a man's faculties can be concentrated on one point, it will be like a spike; a blunt object cannot penetrate an obstacle, it has to be sharpened, and then it can easily thrust its way through anything.

Nobody, living or dead, makes things easy even when you love them. Especially then.

Patricia C. McKissack

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

If the writer thinks about his material long enough, until it becomes a part of his mind and wakes up thinking about it- then at least when he starts to work, it will flow out as if by itself.

Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.

A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.

It is then good to remember that artists have existed and persisted, like the snail and coelacanth and other changing forms of organic life since long before governments were dreamed of.

The trouble some idiots go to

A book is not a thing of one sitting, like a poem, but a longish thing which takes time and energy and since it takes skill, too, the first effort or maybe the second may not find a market.

The implacable Indian had turned out to be one hell of a cantankerous patient. Besides

Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.