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Quotes About Persistence

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~ John Quinton
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
~ John Quinton
I ask not for wealth, or fame or long life, only that I may have the strength and courage to get to my objective and hit it, and hit it, and hit it.
~ John R. Bruning
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, learn along the way, and keep moving. ~ Conrad Hilton
~ John R. Childress
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
~ John Ralston Saul
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
~ John Reader
Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!
~ John Ringo
I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.
~ John Robert Bolton
we want to get our dreams, we need to sacrifice everything that we have in order to reach it.
~ John Rogers
It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
~ John Sexton
Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.
~ John Sexton
Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved.
~ John Sloan
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge
~ John Smith
The world is work; life is work; growth is work; all things are full of labour, and attain their perfection only by labour.
~ John Stuart Blackie
Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,This cannot take her.If of herself she will not love,Nothing can make her.The devil take her!
~ John Suckling
As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach. But I guess a lot of stories start that way.
~ John Swartzwelder
It was the nose of a champion still, and wind and dark and snow could not prevail against it – there was a grouse in the brush heap.
~ John Taintor Foote
He's a flyin' mchine, with a telescope nose. You got a grand dog, Mr. Gregory, a grand dog. A gamer dog never lived – he'll try all the way; but this here dog that old fool's go a hold of somehow aint't human. In three hours he'll find all the quail in the state!
~ John Taintor Foote
Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.
~ John Tenniel
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~ John U. Bacon
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
~ John Updike
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
~ John Updike
When we look at nature, we are only looking at the survivors. STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, If a Lion Could Talk
~ John Vaillant