Quotes About Persistence

Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.' [Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell. Sonnet 58.13

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.

depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started every day.

have found that this journey from no to yes with myself is not a single trip, but ultimately a lifelong journey. I have been on this journey for a long time and expect to be on it for as long as I live.

If the other refuses to respect your No, you may see only two choices: submission and outright war. Yet there is a third choice, highlighted by Gandhi: to underscore your Positive No. Don't overreact, underscore. To underscore means to emphasize patiently and persistently that No in fact means No. It means continuing to stand up for what is important to you without destroying the possibility of a deal or a healthy relationship.

You're indestructible, Preacher. I fully expect that forty or fifty years from now, you'll still be

people have already wanted me to work

William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone

hire you to make sure that doesn't happen.

to search for another handhold. A

If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth it

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

está dispuesto a hacer lo incómodo para ganar? ¿a extender sus alcances? ¿a hacer cosas diferentes y de forma diferente?

Better wear out than rust out.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put your heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little, too. If you do all those things-someday you'll have your pony and gun. You'll get help when you least expect it.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put you heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little too.

Give up!" Grandpa barked. "Now I don't want to hear you say that. No, sir, that's the last thing I want to hear. Don't ever start anything you can't finish.

It's not good for a boy to want something with all his heart and then be disappointed. Things like that can hurt for a long time.

I've always figured that a man can do almost anything if he puts his mind to it and doesn't ever give up.

I'm sure some great champions had slid out of that pipe, and no doubt more than one world record had been broken, but if someone had been there when I came out, I know the record I set would stand today in all its glory.

Wilson Rawls