Quotes About Persistence

Evening, and morning, and at noon will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. —Psalm 55:17

Life is long. Things can resume.

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth

Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.

I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.

How many times shall things be over, Father?

that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Malcolm Folley

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

Wünsche, an die wir uns zu sehr klammern, rauben uns leicht etwas von dem, was wir sein sollen und können. Wünsche, die wir um der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe willen immer wieder überwinden, machen uns – umgekehrt – reicher.