Quotes About Persistence

Like God's, women's toil had no beginning and no end.

Do you think I could keep bees one day?" I asked. August said, "Didn't you tell me this past week one of the things you loved was bees and honey? Now, if that's so, you'll be a fine beekeeper. Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough." The

I pressed Yaltha to set a course, but she persisted in her waiting, saying if the pot was tended long enough, the answer would bubble to the surface.

And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love—but to persist in love.

I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal? Without hesitation Jung replied, The detour.

She'll outlive the last cockroach

The days he was away crept on tiny, unhurried feet.

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

Your moment will come, and when it does, you must seize it with all the bravery you can find. Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

Your moment will come because you will make it come.

Your moment will come, and when it does, you must seize it with all the bravery you can find...Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we'll press on anyway. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks.

I always have cold feet but come on, they won't stop me.

She had been meant to die, yet she'd cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.

La prudencia y la firmeza de un pequeño número de personas pueden llegar a cansar y a dominar incluso a numerosos ejércitos.

Many great warriors beat their meat, but only the strongest defeat it.

War is like a fire—if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.

Motivation is the result, not the instigator of change. Action comes first. Then, the action becomes a habit. From the habit, you see results or get rewards, which eventually lead to motivation.

Failure is Impossible

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody