Quotes About Persistence

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Go on Louis, jump up, " I'd say every day for the first three months. From the vacant look on his face, I may as well have asked him to solve a Rubik cube puzzle.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.