Quotes About Persistence

The greater the effort, the better the reward. So learn to embrace hard work and great effort and risk. Without them, there can be no meaningful achievement.

This is just the first day; you'll get used to it. The rewards will come later, from the kids themselves–and from the unlikeliest ones.

The search for love continued even in the face of great odds.

I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.

Like all great mysteries, we are all mysteriously called to love no matter the conditions of our lives, the degree of our depravity or despair. The persistence of this call gives us reason to hope.

Hopefulness empowers us to continue our work for justice even as the forces of injustice may gain greater power for a time." (xiv)

If Grant hadn't been hanging on he would have been flung across the bridge again.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

one day, "you've found your chosen field, and you're already moving into it.

I had not been content just to read and to learn. I

Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far.

I shook off my numbness. I opened the door and went into the other bedroom. Two little figures stood on the bed. One had a shirt over his head which Mike was trying to pull past his ears. Here, I said, you've got to unbutton another button. Then you'd have to take the whole thing off, he protested. There are time when it pays to start all over again, and this is one of them.

I may be wrong but I think nothing needs so much effort as prayer to God. If anyone wants to pray, the demons try to interrupt the prayer, for they know that prayer is the only thing that hinders them. All the other efforts in a religious life, whether they are made vehemently or gently, have room for a measure of rest. But we need to pray till our dying breath. That is the great struggle.

Everybody knows that most people who trade in the market lose money at it in the end. The people who persist in trying it are either (a) unintelligent, or (b) willing to lose money for the fun of the game, or (c) gifted with some uncommon and incommunicable talent. In any case they are not investors. p12

Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way…. Aeneid

I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.

We pulled slow and steady through the darkness and we hammered the ears of the gods with prayers.

Someone, I thought, knew where Ice-Spite was hidden. And I would find her.

He's like a man putting wattle hurdles in the face of a flood. -Brace a hurdle well and it'll turn a stream.

The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is.

Where a boy runs he never forgets.

There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall.

Più sgobbava - la sua fatica era un'immagine del tempo che divora se stesso - meno sembrava possedere.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.