Quotes About Persistence

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

They were about to continue a journey that had really started long ago. A journey that had been strangely interrupted, that even now someone was trying to prevent.

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

Alle Widerstände lassen sich durch Energie besiegen.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

Make a plan," Dad always said. "And if that doesn't work, make another one and if that doesn't work, you're probably the problem.

I lie here for a few moments, willing it to go away. I'd hoped that by moving back to London I could leave it behind, with no forwarding address. But now it's found me and it's not giving up without a fight. But neither am I. Summoning my courage, I throw back my duvet. Because if there's one thing I do know, it's that you must never give in to a bully. And The Fear is the very worst kind.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.