Quotes About Persistence

Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.

In those days you matched a block of balsa against a rudimentary diagram and got going with a razor blade, which sliced your thumb as readily as it carved the balsa. If the result was recognizable as an aeroplane, you were an expert. If your thumb was recognizable as a thumb, you were a genius.

Noël Coward's comment about the secret of success being the capacity to survive failure.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Great loves too must be endured.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

Very soon he'll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.' 'I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.

Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to shake it off, Max." Morse turned over a page. "And you don't improve much either, do you? You've been examining all our bloody corpses for donkey's years, and you still refuse to tell us when they died.

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

I know that in life I shall never find anything beyond what I have found; thou thyself knowest not that thou art hoping yet continually, and seeking.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco

Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.

Change is the only thing that endures

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Zo plotseling als het onweer begonnen was, ging het gewoon verder.