Quotes About Persistence

Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing! A-aa-aaa-aaaah!

Well not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

I didn't know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.

I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last.

Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.

Never in a month of Mondays.

18 Still Waiting

You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!

Alguna vez nos detenemos a pensar - se preguntó Matilda - dónde van nuestras profesoras cuando terminan de dar sus clases?

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book.

Once again, God has a purpose. A desire. A goal. And God never stops pursuing it. Jesus tells a series of parables in Luke 15 about a woman who loses a coin, a shepherd who loses a sheep, and a father who loses a son. The stories aren't ultimately about things and people being lost; the stories are about things and people being found. The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn't give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simply doesn't give up. Ever.

The actor Mark Ruffalo went to six hundred auditions before he got his first break. Six hundred NOs before the first YES.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO. Or a door slammed in the face. Or boos. Or a rejection letter. Or a tepid reception. Or bankruptcy. Or gotten fired.

To do anything new—to do the 1—requires tremendous mental fortitude to not think about 2 or 3 yet. That time will come. And it is not now. Now is the time for 1. You start with 1. And you work on that. Just 1. And when 1 is done, you move to 2.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." —Jimi Hendrix Soundtrack:

The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something—something big. And now, no sooner

Robert A. Caro

Robert A. Caro

You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers

These aspects of masculinity include strength, discipline, courage, passion, persistence, and integrity.