Quotes About Persistence

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

I will win, not immediately.... But Definately...!!!!!!

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.

Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

Giving up is losing.

Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it -- you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.

We must finish this construction and not start building anew.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.