Quotes About Persistence

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

What is worse is that one wonders how, to-morrow, one will find strength enough to go on doing what one has been doing the day before, and for so much too long before that, – strength for the whole mad business, for a thousand and one vain projects: attempts to escape crushing necessity; attempts which are always stillborn....

I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it! You will hate the next place, too, I said. What you are you will carry with you.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons? Yes, ma. Did the wagons stop? No, ma. Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going someplace you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.

Indians got a story," Hondo said, "about a hunter who chased a puma until he caught him. Then it was the other way around.

told himself. He might

rip our bottom out.

way among the rocks. Occasionally he was exposed, but there were no more shots. Either he was unseen, and they were deliberately allowing him to get to the cabin, or they had moved out to try to cross farther up, away from his line of fire, and so come down behind

The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

fighting man. Loss Degner was bad all through and made no

A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.

There is no reason why anyone cannot get an education if he or she wants it badly enough and is persistent.

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

The ledge was steep, but there

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.