Quotes About Persistence

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

Up the well known creek

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.

But Urdda stood firm. 'Where do you come from, sir?' 'I come' - the littlee-man stalked towards her in a way that might have been menacing, had he been full-sized - 'from Smelly-bumhole Land. You may call me Mister Odiferous. Up through the arse of the world I come here, and when I'm finished I will squeeze myself back out it.

I think it's really important to maintain a positive attitude. It might not solve all your problems, but keep it up long enough and it will piss off enough people to make it worthwhile.

Failure leads to Success.

The things that Irish setter cold do! She could scent birds even in dry weather when other dogs just sat down on their haunches and gave up. She could find them if they were hidden in a haystack. She could fly over brush and fences and brooks as if she had wings on her feet instead of feathers.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.