Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wangari Maathai

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Walter Kirn

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

John D. Voelker

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Rex Stout

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

Walt Disney

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

John Cena

Never Quit, Never backdown.

Og Mandino

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Ted Kotcheff

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Thomas A. Edison

I never quit until I get what I want.

Rachel Dratch

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

Bob Woodward

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Betty White

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Winston Churchill

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Zig Ziglar

Quit counting time and start making time count

Larry Holmes

There is no quit in me.

Louis Sachar

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is always to early to quit.

Sandra Mason

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding.

Milton Berle

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

Robert Benton

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.