Quotes About Persistence

He was going to think about her and think about her until she disappeared.

Tycho Brahe clung to a lousy idea, Hans. That's all it was. People like us—you must know this by now—we can't do that. We know damn well when we're right. We know a long time before anyone else even suspects it." He cleared his throat. "Or when we're wrong. That's how we live. That's how we die.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey," he replied, quoting the proverb.

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to conviction of honor and good sense.

I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining.

killer were right behind us. Now we were outside,

much is gained by patience

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

If it still wasn't working when she went to bed, she could start something new in the morning.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain.

There's a word to describe giving it your best shot every time - it's called professionalism.

it'll come down to more shoe leather on my part,

Get the motherfucker. Stay the hell away from him, but go get him. It's what you do now. And if

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

CARLY PHILLIPS There is no substitute for hard work, i.e., sitting down at the computer and writing no matter what you feel like doing instead.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.