Quotes About Persistence

Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on

Reginald Hill

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Ne t'attarde pas à l'ornière des résultats. ( Don't linger in the rut of success )

One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form; proving dreams really can come true

Au travail, le plus difficile, c'est d'allumer la petite lampe du cerveau. Après, ça brûle tout seul.

You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I just celebrated my thirtieth birthday. Ten years late, but I did it.

The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after we have resolutely set about praying some of the time somewhere. — John Dalrymple

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Pinot Noir country. My grape. The one varietal that truly enchants me, both stills and steals my heart with its elusive loveliness and false promises of transcendence. I loved her, and I would continue to follow her siren call until my wallet--or liver, whichever came first--gave out.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

If he does it right and is lucky, in nine or 10 months he scoops the tiny half-inch seedlings out of the bottle and plants them in community pots. A year later he transplants them to individual three-inch pots and in another two years to 4 1/2-inch pots, and crosses his fingers. Then, five or six or seven years since the day he put pollen to stigma, he sees an orchid no one ever saw before. It is different from any orchid that has ever bloomed, including those in the Garden of Eden.

Mr. Cramer is constantly leaping at the throat of evil and finding himself holding on for dear life to the tip of its tail.

By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

over the place, and this way he would get a

But he wouldn't find me in the office, sitting there like patience in the hoosegow.

dived through the rain across the sidewalk, found