Quotes About Persistence

Third time is the charm

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.

Julieta, la noche no es un momento, pero un momento puede durar toda la noche.

Mientras una vive, lucha.

Y sin embargo la esperanza me persigue, me ronda, me muerde; como un lobo moribundo que apretara sus dientes por última vez.

Qué esfuerzo! ¡Qué esfuerzo del caballo por ser perro! ¡Qué esfuerzo del perro por ser golondrina! ¡Qué esfuerzo de la golondrina por ser abeja!

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.' The

The follow-through, the execution, is a thousand times more important than a 'great idea'. In fact, if the execution is perfect, it sometimes barely matters what the idea is. If you want to get rich, don't sit around waiting for inspiration to strike. Just get busy getting rich.

Have a series of questions handy to shoot out when they grind to a halt. Then focus like mad on what your instinct and your intuition is telling you – as well as your ears. As

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. Thank

There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there is any other other way.

You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say "Open Sesame!" and there you are.

The movement of history is slow and covers vast reaches of time: to cross it requires seven-league boots.

The obstinate presence of the past greedily and steadily swallows up the fragile lifetime of men.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Semper versans, semper in motu. (mereu ratacind, mereu in miscare)

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

a veces venciendo los dolores que trae el tiempo:

Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.

Mad gone' may mean literally 'crazy about', but in the context it makes a bad pun on Maud Gonne, the Irish activist—politically and culturally—whom W. B. Yeats, in fact, came to be 'mad gone' on, proposing several times to her, but each time turned down. Yeats, unable to get the mother, eventually proposed to Maud's daughter, Iseult, in 1917.

My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there's another shaping up to knock me down.

A fruit basket would have been nice, but instead we found that a flyer had been slipped under the door. Dear Brainwashed Cowards, You are nothing but puppets of the corrupt Shah. We will teach you a lesson you will never forget. Death to the Shah. Death to you. My father crumpled the flyer and threw it away. "Let's find out where they're having the dinner buffet," he said.