Quotes About Persistence

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking quickly in and out of her mouth while she hissed sibilantly like a serpent. Sharon stopped then screamed as she felt Regan's tongue snaking out at her ankle. That day, everywhere Sharon went, Regan followed.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

By the 1990s, Ericsson's research was demonstrating2 that the same phenomenon he had first discovered among concert violinists also applied to the creation of innovations: that the cost of becoming consistently productive at creative inventing is ten thousand hours of practice—five to seven years—just as it is for music, athletics, and chess.

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

Perseverance, dear my lord,Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hangQuite out of fashion, like a rusty mailIn monumental mockery.

Whose sore taskDoes not divide the Sunday from the week.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

William Shakespeare

I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew and dog will have his day.