Quotes about Persistence

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You must keep moving to maintain the balance.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.