Quotes About Persistence

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.