Quotes About Persistence

It's never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

Entrepreneurs typically start on a path they do not see as risky at all, then something happens that upsets their expectations and, being too far into their projects to turn back, they are forced to improvise. Those who get over this hump, or mountain, of unexpected trouble are the surviving entrepreneurial successes.

It's a mistake to possess comfortable things," he said now. "Soft couches, big beds, large bath tubs, the like. Because if nothing is comfortable you don't settle in; you keep moving. And if you keep moving, you have a better chance of staying ahead of the people who are trying to catch up with you.

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

Failure is a path, not a destination.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our mission in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in the best of spirits.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

O to break loose, like the chinooksalmon jumping and falling back,nosing up to the impossiblestone and bone-crushing waterfall.

Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

The mole is a creature that I admire," Gödel said, before listing several of its most salient virtues, ranging from industry to persistence. "And it does not call attention to itself or its work. It works in secret. That, too, is to be admired.

twenty yards to go—he could see a laundry truck rumbling by on the street—and