Quotes About Persistence

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest.

In other words, concentrated practice over time cannot fail but produce results.

So I went down to their office and I said, "Well, I'll write a column for you." So the first year I didn't get paid anything, but I wrote a little column every month

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

Bone always outlasts feather

Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

What can't be changed must be endured.

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

You will do well.

I thought you were dead," Bera breathed. Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.

People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.

The surface of the water may be still, but the fish never stop swimming.

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

What could not be changed must be endured.