Quotes About Persistence

Failure: the renewable resource.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Let your poem be kept nine years.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.