Quotes About Persistence

If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk. And, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving

If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up

We will be greatly misled if we feel that the problem will work itself out. Structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting. If history teaches anything, it is that evil is recalcitrant and determined, and never voluntarily relinquishes its hold short of an almost fanatical resistance. Evil must be attacked by a counteracting persistence, by the day-to-day assault of the battering rams of justice.

Se não puder voar, corra. Se não puder correr, ande. Se não puder andar, rasteje; mas continue em frente de qualquer jeito.

determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

And there are no shortcuts or substitutes for "constant practice" when it comes to developing spiritual discernment—

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

How dare he give her no opportunity to ignore him?

Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?

It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.

Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family?

Holmes pensively; 'but our expedition of to-night will solve them all. Ah, here is a four-wheeler, and Miss Morstan is inside. Are you all ready? Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour.' I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It was clear that he thought that our night's work might be a serious one. Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark

Do you tell me that we have to sit down underthis? Do you say that no one can ever get level withthis king-devil?" "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But you must giveme time—you must give me time!

His face gets between me and my sleep.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.