Honore de Balzac Quotes

To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds To toil and not to seek for rest; To labor and not ask for any reward.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Talent is long patience.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.