Quotes About Persistence

Nous sommes les escargots des sommets. (p. 18)

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

If today we fall without lowering our colors, our cause is certain of victory tomorrow.

some species or even large groups seem to have reached the end of their evolutionary possibilities a very long time ago, yet they have not died out, but have remained unchanged, or without significant change, for many millions of years.

and little grace or mercy behind me. I was nothing, I would die nothing, hunted

Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again.

I did it before and I'll do it again. I can, I can, I can, she said to herself, as if by saying it, she could make herself believe it.

Let Us Remove the Trees from Our Path

Falling down does not make you weak, it makes you sore. Not getting back up means you're weak.

I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can't get up earlier than a farmer's wife.

James Lister and Louis Pasteur were at first excluded from academic honor societies and laughed at for their theories on sterilization, vaccination, and pasteurization.

Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it's a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose step is like a quarter of a human's.

So if you're really unhappy down there, and if all kinds of people are telling you that you're suffering from severe perceptual disorders, look for your own way of getting here, and when you find it, could you please bring some cards, 'cause we're getting pretty tired of the marbles. - from "Pipes

Once he was going, it was difficult to stop him. "Mathematics is like carving a wooden doll," he said, "and then, one day, you watch as your wooden doll gives birth to another wooden doll." These words have stayed with me all my life.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

Uma pessoa pode ficar morta de cansaço devido a uma longa caminhada, ou à espera numa bicha, mas isso também faz parte da vida e algures há algo dentro de ti que nunca vai abandonar-te

[To Ptolemy I:] There is no royal road to geometry.

There is no Royal Road to Geometry.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

It doesn't do to leave one's work, that is why time and nature, and indeed everything that labours slowly and ceaselessly, produces such good results, but we, whose work is constantly being interrupted, never spin the same thread from beginning to end. Before I left Paris I was producing the work of M. Delacroix, as he was a fortnight ago, now I am about to being the work of the present M. Delacroix (Wednesday 12 May 1852).

A FORMIGA Sete palmos, sete metros, anda a formiga por dia (sete palmos a correr, sete metros devagar), só para lamber o mel que lentamente escorria quer da boca quer do pão quer dos dedos do Miguel.

Ten, kdo má ujít 100 mil, by mÄ›l pokládat 99 mil za polovinu cesty.