Quotes About Persistence

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.

Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

If Washington expected relief from Hamilton badgering him for an appointment, he soon learned otherwise. Hamilton was fully prepared to become a pest.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Success seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

God as Satan? I've rarely heard a more radical formulation of the problem of theodicy (the attempt to reconcile the existence of a supposedly loving and just God with the persistence of evil).

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

No is never "no," it's just "no" for now.

He believed "the leading rule"21 for any lawyer was "diligence." Lincoln counseled, "Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today.… Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Those who had spent a whole night, or sometimes three whole nights, cramped and cold, with a bursting bladder, while they guided a telescope to keep the pinpoint of a faint star in the cross-hair of an eyepiece, knew the advantages of a fast telescope.

THIS BOOK HAS been over a quarter of a century in the making,

Sometimes, for a generation or more, injustice, war, totalitarianism, and social evil of all kinds may advance, rather than retreat. Even then, the assurance of Christ's final victory provides hope that sustains our persistent, faithful struggle for justice even when the political tide is sweeping in the other direction.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

War exists notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it."8

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings.

never give up when things are hard

The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run.