Quotes About Persistence

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Every word written is a victory against death.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

The monster nevers dies.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.