Quotes About Persistence

One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light. Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Both flame and spider enrich themselves by understanding the natures of their prey; and fly and moth return again and again until this is accomplished.

No matter how many times you stir up a steaming pile of crap, it's still just a steaming pile of crap.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.

One who cannot benefit by patience will die in grief.

One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

That's what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.

She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.

I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?

Steel Watch

How much schoolin' do you want?" he demanded, harshly. "If you please Uncle Jabez, all I can get," replied Ruth.

And that most nice things are the result of hard work? The sweet from the bitter, you know.

But Ruth was the kind of a person who, in attempting a thing, did her very best to accomplish it.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Writing is waiting. That's the whole of it. If you sit in your chair not doing anything else for long enough, the answer will come. You do have to be in your chair, though, ready to write it down.

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

What I love is one foot in front of another. South-south-west and down the contours. I go slipping between Black Ridge and White Horse Hill into a bowl of the moor where echoes can't get out listen a lark spinning around one note splitting and mending it and I find you in the reeds, a trickle coming out of a bark, a foal of a river

very nearly anonymous now having recently turned five thousand with the same wedge of yearning lodged in my chest as ever and getting accustomed to surviving like a bramble very good at growing anywhere you ought to praise me for this trailing bloom

three people in raincoats losing their tracks in the snow walking as far as the edge and back again with the trees exhausted tapping at the sky

Don't stop short of your goal

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.