Quotes About Persistence

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

Then welcome each rebuffThat turns earth's smoothness rough,Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!Be our joys three parts pain!Strive, and hold cheap the strain;Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

It's a long lane that knows no turnings.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

The best laid schemes of mice and men often go astray

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.

Change is inevitable--except from a vending machine.

Learning to write clean code is hard work. It requires more than just the knowledge of principles and patterns. You must sweat over it. You must practice it yourself, and watch yourself fail. You must watch others practice it and fail. You must see them stumble and retrace their steps. You must see them agonize over decisions and see the price they pay for making those decisions the wrong way.

If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

When Ludwig asked if he saw no good points in the Jesuits, he replied: "Yes, they are systematic and persistent in the pursuit of bad ends. But their chief method is surveillance, spying, invasion of the inner life, the violation of people's feelings, and what can be positive in that?