Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

There's something in your heart And it's in your eyes It's the fire, inside you Let it burn You don't say, "Good luck" You say, "Don't give up" It's the fire, inside you Let it burn

The 2nd time leads to the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th time, I feel so alive, it won't last but it's alright

up all morning; it would not be unheard

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

A dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a day.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

He advised, "Whenever you fall, pick up something.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.

In this way, you force time to your will. Time, for sighted people, is that against which they fight.

Doors don't slam open.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Are you a brilliant, charismatic leader with once-more-into-the-breach persistence? Or an egomaniac squandering resources and lives?

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To try and try and never get it right./Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,/I wouldn,t mind what hells I,d have to pass,/Not if the whole world called me fool and ass." Dauber (A poem). John Masefield. 1916. London William Heinemann

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.