Quotes About Persistence

That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.

A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

It you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

Volcker relied on public opinion, integrity, and persistence to overcome the political pressure to finance government spending the easy way, by printing money rather than by taxation.

A volte ho l'impressione che se davvero ho un talento non è di natura letteraria. Il mio è piuttosto un talento per la pura e semplice sopravvivenza. Sono sopravvissuto a tre matrimoni naufragati, alla perdita dei figli, alla guerra, alla tubercolosi, al marxismo, all'alcolismo, alla nevrosi e ad anni di scrittura da freelance. Sono troppo cocciuto e miserabile perché mi si possa far fuori, mi sa». - W.L.Gresham

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Take pains. Be perfect.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.

The rain, it raineth every day.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

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

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. And if you please to call it a rush candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

Pour on, I will endure.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

Why makes thou it so strange? She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia , therefore must be loved.