Quotes About Persistence

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget.

There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

On those days Lucinda kept as much as she could out of Sir Griffin's way, and almost snapped at the baronet when he spoke to her. Sir Griffin swore to himself that he wasn't going to be treated that way. He'd have her, by George! There are men in whose love a good deal of hatred is mixed; — who love as the huntsman loves the fox, towards the killing of which he intends to use all his energies and intellects.

Can you shoot?" he said afterwards to Lord Gerald. "I can fire off a gun, if you mean that," said Gerald. "You have never shot much?" "Not what you call very much. I'm not so old as you are, you know. Everything must have a beginning." Mr. Dobbes wished "the beginning" might have taken place elsewhere; but there had been some truth in the remark.

Anthony Trollope

Faint heart never won fair lady.

He's been so little here, Daniel," said the squire. "It goes as tinder and a spark o' fire, that does," said the farmer. "Girls like Ruby don't want no time to be wooed by one such as that, though they'll fall-lall with a man like John Crumb for years.

Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are." Such

Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LIX THE LAST EFFORT

Perhaps I may do something by writing,' said Charley, very bashfully. 'By writing! ha, ha, ha,' and Alaric laughed somewhat cruelly at the poor navvy—' do something by writing! what will you do by writing? will you make £20,000—or 20,000 pence? Of all trades going, that, I should say, is likely to be the poorest for a poor man—the poorest and the most heart-breaking.

She continued writing up to 1856, when she was seventy-six years old,--and had at that time produced 114 volumes, of which the first was not written till she was fifty. Her career offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence.

Men fail often in other things, in the pursuit of honour, fortune, or power, and when they fail they can begin again.

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION

Anthony Trollope

Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.

It says yes, in blue, in foam, in a gallop. It says no, then no. It cannot be still. My name is sea, it repeats, striking a stone but not convincing it. Then with the seven green tongues, of seven green tigers, of seven green seas, it caresses it, kisses it, wets it, and pounds on its chest, repeating its own name.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

BUT SOMEHOW, IF YOU want to badly enough, you can always report a story. It feels like magic but it works like carpentry. You build a frame, and then you build on that, and pretty soon you have something to stand on so you can hammer away at a height that was initially out of reach.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

Excellence is not an act, but habit.