Quotes About Persistence

You never fail until you stop trying.

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

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

Something had to be done. Apart from robbing a bank—a line of endeavor for which I lacked the needful preliminary training—I saw no way to get ahead in the world except by forcing some kind of opening for myself as a fiction writer. Thenceforth, for several years, I set aside five hours a night, five nights a week, for this kind of work. After my nine-hour office day, I came home, got a shower and a rubdown; and as soon as dinner was ended, I went to my desk and began writing.

This is the magic secret of dog training -- lose control over yourself and you at once lose control of the dog. Your strongest and most irresistible weapon is iron patience.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the sower to see the harvest.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

You can't wash away overnight several years of clockwork routine and constant disassembling of self.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

graba nu scurteaz? drumul, ci îl face doar mai obositor.

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Y yo caminaría por todos los desiertos de este mundo y aun muerta te seguiría buscando, a ti, que fuiste el lugar del amor.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.