Quotes About Persistence

A landscape fossilized, It's stone-wall patternings Repeated before our eyes In the stone walls of Mayo. Before I turned to go He talked about persistence, A congruence of lives, How, stubbed and cleared of stones, His home accrued growth rings Of iron, flint and bronze - "Belderg

ALL GREAT DEEDS AND ALL GREAT THOUGHTS HAVE A RIDICULOUS BEGINNING. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

... but the longest day hath its evening.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

Never is an awfully long time.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

It is truly one day at a time.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

One more thing, one more time.