Plutarch Quotes

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

'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. . . .

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

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

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Patience wins the race.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Plodding wins the race.

I have to be calm and go slowly, and above all, keep working hard.

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.