Quotes About Persistence

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

El tiempo que vela todo, ha dado la solución a tu pesar. El tiempo, que conoce la respuesta, ha seguido transcurriendo. En un día como éste, algo más tarde o más temprano, todo vuelve a empezar, todo empieza , todo continúa. Deja de hablar como un hombre que sueña.

The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.

Dash it, coz! Been searching for you all over! Even took a look-in at the church. If I hadn't thought to ask pretty well everyone I met if they'd seen a mountain moving about on legs I might be hunting for you still!

Creo que jamás aconsejaría a nadie que se diera por vencido, porque no soporto esa actitud tan débil.

you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!

You are going through mud but your feet are still clean.

Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.

I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets

Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead.

This is what I like, said Jesse. Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

This is what I like," said Jessie. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

Start all over again and this time, concentrate. [to a young Ernest Hemingway]

The way to resume is to resume. If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.

The souls of people do not interest him, that is to say for him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body and this is for him so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing.

Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state

I work very hard in the gym. Sometimes, I come home very late, around 1 A.M., but still I go and work out at the gym. I don't ever stop.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was determined to make those two work together, so I just worked at it until I started making stuff that sounded like music.

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

I am a workaholic and constantly want to do something.

On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

I'm a workaholic, and so I've always got to be doing stuff.