Quotes About Persistence

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

I am slow of study.

The beastWith many heads butts me away.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I am almost out at heels.

Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

By and by is easily said.

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

You are a memory too strong to leave this world...

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

The Way It Is There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can't get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding. You don't ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.