Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

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

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.

Be relentless and then you'll break through.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I just keep working.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Talent is long patience.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.