Quotes About Persistence

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

At the end of my third year as a full-time student, when I won a $750 prize, I immediately went to a BMW motorcycle shop in the Eighties on the West Side and bought a used BMW R69 500-cc motorcycle, all black and, though used, in great shape.

I had met my wife in college. Her name was Barbara, and she was the first woman besides my mother to show the faintest interest in me. It took six years to persuade her to marry me.

recurring impossibility, a 'return of the repressed'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough, Is having the blind persistence To upset an existence Just for your own sake. What cheek it must take.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Rather than increase your pace, gradually increase your total workout time.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

We must continue up the steps because the path is right, and the process of climbing is all that matters.

By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at my own expense. I sent these out as Christmas cards for Christmas, 1943.

Il a compris, bien sûr. Il sait à quoi il doit mon intérêt pour lui. Mais pourquoi cela suffit-il à le faire rester ? D'autant qu'il l'a dit lui-même : on le renvoie fréquemment à cette parenté, il pourrait en être lassé. Il n'exprime pas de lassitude. Persiste dans le sourire. Et fournit lui-même l'explication à son acceptation de mon invitation. Il dit : vous avez dû l'aimer beaucoup, pour me regarder comme ça.

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.

Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.

I limiti, le trappole, le impossibilità mi sono necessari, vado loro incontro ogni giorno. Ritengo che la frusta sia necessaria, a condizione che a maneggiarla sia l'allievo, non il maestro.

Uomo dell'aria, tu colora col sangue le ore sontuose del tuo passaggio fra noi. I limiti esistono soltanto nell'anima di chi è a corto di sogni.

Life's a marathon, not a sprint.