Quotes About Persistence

It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

Moving right along In search of good times And good news, With good friends you can't lose. This could become a habit. Opportunity just knocked, Let's reach out and grab it, Together we'll nab it, We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.

I don't want'a die... I have other plans! -Fraggle Rock

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs.

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.

Seek, and you shall be disappointed. Knock, and the door shall be slammed in your face.

The woman picked up a broom and began sweeping the sand into small piles, then edging the piles back to the fence. New sand blew in as she swept.

At nineteen I had wanted to write. At forty I still wanted to write, and nothing that had happened in the years between made me any more certain that I could.

I just can't get that monster out of my mind.

Work, Work, Work

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

it, I just did it. I don't know if I

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.