Quotes About Persistence

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Rome was not built in one day.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Ill weed groweth fast.

fter nearly four months of being on the road, nothing seemed to faze them. This is a really annoying quality; you want to be miserable, but those around you refuse to yield their sunny dispositions.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

return to the grim business of living.

The race is to the driven, not the swift.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

I retain a stupid, Romantic love for pens and pads. The stuff of writing still affects me. And I've always been someone who will go to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to write down something, a word or idea, that for whatever reason had not wanted to be lost. You have to be a squirrel in that way. You have to be a chipmunk, and what you are collecting are combinations of words.

No se puede escribir una novela o componer una canción, no se puede acordar una adquisición o ampliar una oferta sin una completa dedicación a la tarea que se tiene entre manos.

Es más fácil escuchar a alguien un rato e improvisar que sentarse día tras día y penetrar las capas de lo mundano y trivial en búsqueda de lo profundo.

Energy in the morning, determination at midday, hunger in the evening.

Incluso cuando se está condenado al fracaso, vale la pena poner en práctica todo lo que uno sabe, para que cuando llegue la derrota inevitable, uno tenga al menos la satisfacción de saber que hizo cuando estaba en su mano para evitarlo.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.