Quotes About Persistence

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.'

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage

Don't be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.

I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

This too shall pass - just like a kidney stone

May we gain the time needed to succeed

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Freedom is never given, it is won.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Opportunity tends to knock once, then it's gone...temptation, however, likes to stand there and lean on the damn doorbell!

The human brain is amazing. It functions 24 hours a day from the time we were born, and only stops when we take exam or when we are in love.

Human brain is the most outstanding object in world. It functions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It functions right from the time we are born, and stop only when we enter the examination hall.

I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.

Life is like a very long TV show, without a remote control.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

If youre going through hell, keep going.

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didnt run hard enough.

I once dated a girl on the track team. It didn't work out. She kept giving me the runaround.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.