Quotes About Persistence

Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good jew or a good Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.

Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home.

The only way out of something is all the way through it.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through." The

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.

If you want to stay around here like death eating a soda cracker, that's your business.

I don't know how

I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water.

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.

Continue To dare to love deeply And risk everything For the good thing Continue

Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

To become wondrously successful and to sustain that success in any profession, one must be willing to relinquish many pleasures and be ready to postpone gratification.

I have waited toes curled, hat rolled heart and genitals in hand on the back porches of forever in the kitchens and fields of rejections on the cold marble steps of America's White Out-House in the drop seats of buses and the open flies of war

Life had a conveyor-belt quality. It went on unpursued and unpursuing

Can't do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash