Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Goleman

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Benoit Mandelbrot

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Bruce Lee

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

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

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Bob Hope

I can still chase women, only downhill

Antonio Davis

I'm still doing something I love to do.

Eckhart Tolle

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

David Bowie

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Carl Sagan

The open road still softly calls...