Quotes About Persistence

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

So never give in," continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river.

He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

But though she spent nearly seven lire, the gates of liberty seemed still unopened.

Es läuft also darauf hinaus. Es hat immer Leute wie mich gegeben, und es wird sie weiterhin geben und meistens sind sie verfolgt worden.

Oh, horrible—worst of all—worse than death, when you have made a little clearing in the wilderness, planted your little garden, let in your sunlight, and then the weeds creep in again!

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of the British way of life.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, recieveth. And he that seeketh, findeth. And to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

we can achieve nothing without paying the price.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway...

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".