Quotes About Persistence

She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

One seldom knows whether perseverance is noble or stupid until it's too late.

This, however, is similar to God saying that the land belonged to Israel. They were promised the land, but they still had to fight for it. Furthermore, not all the battles were successful.

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

Still, she heard herself say, "Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.

Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

we take our victories where we find them, and accept our defeats with grace and patience.

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.

we live to fight another day

In Hom. 12, we have an excellent instruction on that important maxim in a spiritual life, That we must never think how far we have run, but what remains of our course, as in a race a man thinks only on what is before him. It will avail nothing to have begun, unless we finish well our course

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I had survived a long war with the Mob and the government. I told myself I was not going to be defeated by a couple hack writers and a Mafia rat.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.