Quotes About Persistence

Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.

Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

Danny's like his old man," Pasco says. "Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer's? They forget everything but the grudges.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

A sculptor can tap-tap-tap all day and night, he often said, and remain lazy.

Kate never had any money, but she loved to save it. When she was ninety-three her youngest daughter took her to a dollar store where she found an elevated tray filled with tiny aluminum percolators, one-cuppers. The frank and ethical enterprise attached a notice informing its customers that these percolators did not work. They were only 5 cents, so Kate bought two of them anyway.

The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.