Quotes About Persistence

Someone said once, "If you want to fill a dozen milk bottles, you must not stand back and spray them with a hose. You can get them wet, but you won't fill them. You must take them one by one.

If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Hammer out the drawing. Unremitting, persistent effort will bend a stubborn ungainly sketch into a graceful finished drawing. We become tough, hardened drawing veterans.

Another reason for annoyance is being unable to identify the music. I once spent a considerable period of time vainly searching through the scores of Haydn's quartets, convinced that the tune which was preoccupying me was the slow movement of one of them. It turned out to be from his 88th Symphony, which I had not heard for a long time.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.

Penteo, Postumio, Bodino y Torquemada tienen en común confiar en persecuciones que amplifican lo perseguido, y que sólo al cesar producen el efecto buscado; dicho de otro modo: empresas que triunfan fracasando, y viceversa.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

Todo pasa y todo queda, / Pero lo nuestro es pasar, / Pasar haciendo caminos,/ Caminos sobre el mar.