Quotes About Persistence

One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came up with his pen, a thick black fountain pen. Fountain: it seemed less flowing, less forthcoming than that, in shape more like a bullet or a bomb. ("Novelty")

But will she come in time? Oh yes just in time; whenever she comes is just in time; when we have despaired for the thousandth midnight of any such a one ever coming from anywhere, she will arrive, in a tearing hurry, breaking into or out of the last spheres of air, fire, water, earth as though throwing open the successive doors of a long corridor, down which she rushes, her hair streaming and her brow knit, her hand already beside her mouth to call into the ear of our souls Wake up.

If you're going to go somewhere, you have to believe you can get there. Somehow, some way.

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

That which doesn't kill us will only try harder next time, so you might as well make the most of the space in between.

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Effort is its own reward.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you're down, that doesn't mean you're down forever. You never let up.

Life should be an unfinished business.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.