Quotes about Persistence

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

We gotta go and never stop till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

Surviving Is the only war we can afford.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Little by little, one travels far.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.