Quotes About Persistence

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ?i ng??c ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c chi?u gió, ch? không ph?i cùng chi?u.

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ??u ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c gió, không ph?i theo chi?u gió.

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found

He began work on the second volume on 3 April 1753, and seemed newly energized. 'O God who hast hitherto supported me,' he could write in his diary, 'enable me to proceed in this labour & in the Whole task of my present state', so that 'when I shall render up at the last day an account of the talent committed to me I may receive pardon for the sake of Jesus Christ'.14

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Life, by its very nature, is reluctant to end. It is as though we are hardwired for hope, to always feel that we have a future.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

From CATS ARE KIND "I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on.

I am lost in admiration of the honest and courageous men amongst you who have resisted all threats as well as all bribes, and persevered in giving me their free unbought voices. For those unhappy persons who have been scared by imminent fear on their own and their children's behalf from obeying the impulse of their conscience, I feel nothing of resentment--nothing but pity and compassion.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works.