292 quotes found
“If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.”
“It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.”
“Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is...”
“The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
“One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.”
“Make haste slowly.”
“Slow motion gets you there faster.”
“I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.”
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”
“You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.”
“Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.”
“One can go a long way after one is tired.”
“The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
“If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.”
“No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.”
“I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.”
