Quotes About Persistence

Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.

May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.

a bee in a cactus bloom will not be provoked; it stays until the flower wilts. Until closing time.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned.

To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says: "Leave no stone unturned.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

En ik sta te denken dat je toch gehoopt zou hebben dat iemand na al die tijd een douche zou hebben uitgevonden waarbij het gemakkelijk is om het water op de juiste temperatuur te krijgen. Maar dat lijkt de zoveelste te zijn dat de mensheid maar niet voor elkaar krijgt.

Especially riches pulled from the ground. Two-thirds of all American workers labored on farms, with sweat and muscle the only fuels. "There was no quittin' time and no startin' time," a folk proverb declared. "It was all the time.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano.

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.