Quotes About Persistence

Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.

I know what you mean," I said. "The thing is, it's not something I have to be told. I've always been a stubborn son of a bitch. When I start something I have a hell of a time letting go of it. I think that's the main way I solve things, to tell you the truth. I don't do it by being brilliant. I just hang on like a bulldog until something shakes loose.

The real teacher is endurance.

Cheer up, me boyo, it takes a lifetime to grow. People haven't the patience any more.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

Just … isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.