292 quotes found
“Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.”
“Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.”
“I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.”
“He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.”
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding s...”
“Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.”
“All is well that ends well.”
“In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
“It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.”
“Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.”
“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.”
“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages wi...”
“I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't earn...”
“When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will spl...”
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
“Live with no time out.”
“The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.”
“My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.”
“Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.”
