Quotes About Persistence

Except if you're of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.

First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration.

Adrian McKinty

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

Adrian McKinty

It was well before sunrise. But all you had to do was wait. Patience was a weapon. If you waited long enough, the dawn would come.

It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.

Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?

It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

If you face the rest of your life with the spirit you show on the trail, it will have no choice but to yield the same kind of memories and dreams.

Dream until your dreams come true.

Dream until your dreams come true - Aerosmith

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Slow but steady wins the race.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

Slow and steady wins the race! From The Tortoise and the Hare.

I flipped through their visions, left my number in their sleep. But no one called back. I called all night, called for years, called till their lids began to ring, ten, twenty, two hundred times, and then they went blind on my dreams. Now their eyes don't open. No one picks up the phone.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.