Quotes About Persistence

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.