Quotes About Persistence

I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever! –

You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be a part of you and it will stay and do things.

Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.

No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire to make something with words, you probably know that.

What is stranger than memory, that selects a certain day to remain vivid, when thousands of others are totally lost?

It would take just a little more to drink and just a little more time.

You're going to tell me even if I've got to shake it out of you.

Cara didn't bother to respond. She knew Jessica was like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—she always got her man.

drag herself up

Sólo porque algo te parece difícil,no pienses que es imposible. MARCO AURELIO

Se uma coisa lhe parece difícil, não pense que é impossível. – M A R C O A U R É L I O

Though you deny me, I love you with an everlasting love.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Teadvuse piire aga uurigu need, kelle soontes voolab talupojaveri, kellel on rüsajad reied, jämedad sääred, kes taluvad piinu, olgu hingelisi või ihulisi, niisama igapäevaselt, nagu nad söövad leiba ja soola.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

It is sometimes braver to run. She who runs from her enemies until she has the strength to do otherwise is both brave and wise.

Failures mean nothing at all if success comes eventually. And that's a thought that should cheer you up and help you keep on keeping on when the going seems hard. Keep going! Each week, each month, you are improving. One day soon, you will find a way to do the thing that today looks impossible.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard—but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Do you believe in yourself and the things you want to do? Are you prepared for many setbacks and failures? Whatever your calling may be, each error, each failure is like a strike-out. Your greatest asset is the number of strike outs you have had since your last hit. The greater the number, the nearer you are to your next hit.

My great concern,' said Lincoln, "is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Thomas Edison had ten thousand failures before he invented the incandescent bulb. Edison made up his mind that each failure brought him that much closer to success.

Frank Bettger

When you try too hard and become overanxious, you look bad. You are bad. Yes, keep going, but don't be afraid to lose today. Today is not going to make or break you.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

Don't be afraid of it. Learn it. Work hard. Do it seriously and try to get what you can out of it. Keep an open mind, and if in the end you decide to throw it away, you'll be doing it from strength.