Quotes About Persistence

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Learn to Lose, Wade to Win.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.(Red 2008 Film)

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Therefore, be patient. Such pleasure as there is, is here, now. Take pleasure as it comes. Take work as it comes. The end may never come, or when it does it may be the wrong end.

We must take love to the limit of time, because time can not limit it. A life cannot limit it. Maybe to have it in your heart all your life in this world, even while it fails here, is to succeed. Maybe that is enough.

Perseverance is where the gods dwell.

attempt to escape

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day.

Here I am, with my book and my pencil - the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

struggle is the indispensable accompaniment of progress

Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.