Quotes About Persistence

Tutku insan?n, amaçlar?na ulaÅŸma çabas? gösterme yeteneÄŸidir.

a dificuldade da tarefa não deve ser razão para que nos abstenhamos de tentar conhecer-lhe os óbices, assim como as condições de sua realização

Der Mensch soll lernen, nur die Ochsen büffeln

Ma il suo nome è un chiodo che si pianterà in me e non si potrà strappare mai più.

Obiectivul atins nu reprezint? pentru ei un popas, ci punctul de plecare pentru noi n?zuin?e.

Cât timp capacitatea unei inimi de femeie nu a secat,nu este înc? nimic pierdut.

Ali, zapravo, ?emu sve ovo, Robi? - Zato što se ?ovek ne predaje. ?ovek je ja?i od sudbine sve dotle dok se ne preda. To je staro vojni?ko pravilo.

Veruješ li ti da se život nastavlja posle? - Verujem. Život je toliko r?avo stvoren da mu ovde ne može biti kraj.

What I have now at your generous hands is infinitely precious to me. It would kill me to part with it,—I could not and I hope you could not. And I will be patient, patient without end, to see what, if anything, the future may have [in] store for me.

I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

it is one thing to say Carry on, quite another to do it.

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine's blood.

It's like strapping toothpicks onto a newborn colt and telling him to walk. Wearing heels is a sport and I don't want to play.

He's a guy with a one-track mind. When he starts for one objective he can't think of anything else.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.

Through endurance we conquer.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.