Quotes About Persistence

I keep on fighting...but I can't keep going on this way

Philosophers are very patient people, but engineers are far less patient, and investors are the least patient of all.

THE ANCIENT ROMANS WERE USED TO being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history's great empires, they could lose battle after battle but still win the war.

other organisms are doing quite well. Rats and cockroaches, for example, are in their heyday. These tenacious creatures would probably creep out from beneath the smoking rubble of a nuclear Armageddon, ready and able to spread their DNA. Perhaps 65 million years from now, intelligent rats will look back gratefully on the decimation wrought by humankind, just as we today can thank that dinosaur-busting asteroid.

Cuanto más hemos trabajado para construir algo, más difícil es abandonarlo y hacer sitio a algo nuevo.

Effort will lie but will never be in vain.

If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit.

Baby Doll: You'll never have me... ever.

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

what keeps you going.

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On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.

Getting my poems published was a great achievement, but it didn't pay the rent. The only time I made any money was when I won a CAPS fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1983. They gathered sixteen poets in a room and handed us each a check for $5,000. The room was filled with happiness so thick you could cut it. Eventually, I started looking around for another way to make a living.

When I finished the first draft of Death Will Get You Sober, I joined Sisters in Crime and, later, Mystery Writers of America. After that, it was a matter of doing a lot of revision, sending out hundreds of queries over several years, and applying "talent, persistence, and luck"--sometimes known as "persistence, persistence, persistence."

Never say never, cause 'never' is like when the hero dies at the end of a movie.

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is.

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

For every sale you miss you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.