Quotes About Persistence

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

for the achievement of any work regarded as an end there must be a prior exercise of many energies or acquired facilities of a secondary order, demanding patience.

El fracaso después de una larga perseverancia tiene mucha más grandeza que no haber realizado nunca un esfuerzo lo bastante intenso para que luego quepa hablar de fracaso (p.247).

We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Nevertheless the joy of being with Dinah would triumph - it was like the influence of climate, which no resistance can overcome.

Every path hath a puddle.

The meetings have gone on for two decades.

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Fights are won by fighting, not by running.

I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else's name called; after that - I think it was a protective thing - I didn't hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn't mine.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.