Quotes About Persistence

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure, there are thousands to point out to you one by one, the dangers that wait to assail you, But just buckle in, with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing, that cannot be done and you'll do it!!

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

DREAMS Never by many are marvels wrought, By one or two are the dreams first caught. . . The dreamer must toil when the odds are great, Must stand to failure and work and wait. Must keep his faith though he stand alone, Until the truth of his dream is known.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

Even if you can not sculpt great foundations, because you have not got that sort of talent, at least carve a child's toy... Start SOMEWHERE. Do not let this desire be simply a frustration that turns into bitterness when it could grow and develop, given some small outlet..

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trailAnd those caissons go rolling along.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought. (No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.

The most important thing a writer can do is to keep writing, even when the muse is elusive and the words don't come.

No sooner do you get a field cleared of them than within another year a new layer has somehow worked its way to the surface. It's my opinion they boil up from hell, those stones, cooling on the way.