John Ashbery Quotes

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

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

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

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.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

One stroke fells not an oke.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

patience is an integral part of talent.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.