Quotes About Persistence

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Chance favours only those who know how to court her.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.

If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

It's not the having it's the getting.

Better to wear out than to rust out.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'