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Quotes About Persistence

When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you
~ John van de Ruit
I've been trying to kill that name most of my adult life, but I always weaken when somebody whispers it in my ear.
~ John Varley
An element which stimulates itself will hold a stimulus indefinitely.
~ John von Neumann
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
~ John Wanamaker
Sorry don't get it done, Dude.
~ John Wayne
That'll be the day!
~ John Wayne
courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
~ John Wayne
I am Duchess of Malfi still.
~ John Webster
Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might—as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.
~ John Williams
Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.
~ John Williams
You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.
~ John Williams
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
~ John Witherspoon
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
~ John Wooden
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
~ John Wooden
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
~ John Wooden
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~ John Wooden
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?
~ John Wooden
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
~ John Wooden
A man obtains only what he strives for. He
~ John Wortabet
He who seeks and struggles shall find. Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach. When a man makes up his mind to do a thing it becomes easy for him to do it. If you have a clear thought, be decided, and hesitate not—if you decide, hesitate not, but carry it out speedily. You
~ John Wortabet
You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.
~ John Wortabet
Not by fitful efforts, but by constancy, is an end secured. The
~ John Wortabet
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
~ John Wycliffe
You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham
~ John Wyndham