Quotes About Persistence

Faliure is not an option.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.

S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

The chief thing is to begin, after all—after which the chief thing is to finish.

Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)

You must never let yourself be turned aside from life's serious and important questions by ridicule.

since the only way to avoid giving into depression and despair is to do something, even something you hate, anything in fact, I force myself to keep bashing away at something, anything.

That is probably the most painful part: when you are still tormented by the thought that one last effort of will might improve things.

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.

Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien.

Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!

Ich kenne keinen Absatz, keine Veränderung. Ich bin immer nur ein; ein ununterbrochenes Sehnen und Fassen, eine Glut, ein Strom.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.