Quotes About Persistence

There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.

Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible." "No way, mama. Encourage me all you want.

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .

Il padre gli aveva regalato un libro con l'incendio di Troia in copertina, e lui, da grande, non trovò pace finché non scoprì i resti dell'antica città di Priamo. Non

C'è chi viene portato alla meta da un vento veloce, e chi, al contrario, si macera in un'insopportabile bonaccia. C'è

No evil can persist, and as to things, Why, nothing is unchangeable.

All questions can be answered, if one is prepared to take the trouble to find out what they are.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny?

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.

This dog won't hunt. This horse won't jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won't burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.

Sacrifice once and for all the trivialities of social life to your art.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.