Quotes About Persistence

What would you have done had I persisted in stealing the 'poor little girl'?' 'Gone overboard; I never yield to injustice if I can help it,' and Rosamond's resolute mouth and flashing eyes proved the truth of her words.

eu sigo virando páginas e estragando-as, como costumava estragar meus cadernos de exercício, e faço tantos começos que nunca haverá um fim.

Never mind being bashful, it won't last long if you keep going

As we begin a work, remembering we needn't know how it'll turn out or whether it'll be successful might be comforting. And we can cultivate our ability to work despite confusion

When we begin a new project, as embryonic or unsatisfactory as our early work may seem, we're readying ourselves for the deeper work that comes later. We learn about ourselves as writers. We establish our work's foundation. We permit ourselves to play and explore. We commit—or recommit—to working steadily and purposefully.

The trick is to keep at it steadily.We'll see progress in time.""Didion believes the notebook's value lies in its record of "How it felt to be me"at a particular time.""Henry Miller believed reading was 'an act of creation' By reading slowly,carefully,and with complete attention,he believed,we respect the writer's work and enrich our lives.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

The heavy winds couldn't blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn't matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.

This was nicely illustrated by an anecdote.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

As far as Archbold was concerned, Rockefeller was now in too deep to back out.

once John D. Rockefeller, Sr., set his mind to something, he brought awesome powers of concentration to bear.

Shy and bookish, she tended, like Rockefeller, to arrive at brilliant solutions by slow persistence.

Well, Grant, We've had the devil's own day, haven't we? Sherman remarked. Yes, replied Grant with a drag on his cigar. Lick 'em tomorrow though. p205

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

Yet again he contemplated giving up business. An

Nothing could keep him from his morning game.

He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored—whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast Guard—despite years of complaints and bitter smears.

Although Hanna urged him to drop the suit, Watson would not relent.

Never sure of himself, Junior plodded ahead, always wondering where he was heading.

The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible. . . . In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty. . . . To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.