Quotes About Persistence

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...

And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn't let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you wanted, was something she found herself imitating.

life finds a way.

Porque la historia de la evolución es que la vida escapa a todas las barreras. La vida evade los encierros. La vida se expande a nuevos territorios. De manera dolorosa, quizá hasta peligrosa, pero la vida encuentra el modo.

Life will always find a way. - Dr. Ion Malcom

Extinction was simply proof of failure to adapt

Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.

who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.

This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.

I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.

This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure.

Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. Rollo May

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

Er dachte einige Zeit nach. Dann sprach er weiter: Man darf nie an die ganze Straße auf einmal denken, verstehst du? Man muß nur an den nächsten Schritt denken, an den nächsten Atemzug, an den nächsten Besenstrich. Und immer wieder nur an den nächsten. Wieder hielt er inne und überlegte, ehe er hinzufügte: Dann macht es Freude; das ist wichtig, dann macht man seine Sache gut. Und so soll es sein.

He rode by day and he rode by night, in the scorching sun and the pelting rain.

Manche Dinge brauchen ihre Zeit – und Zeit war ja das Einzige, woran Momo reich war.

Tu, lentissima fra i lenti, come puoi arrivare laggiù?» «Passo dopo passo.»

Jules Verne's protagonist Phileas Fogg burned his ship's furniture for fuel to reach Liverpool on his way around the world in 80 days. There is no Liverpool within reach for today's big ad agencies.

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

Mental toughness is possessing, understanding, and being able to utilize a set of psychological skills that allow the effective, and even maximal execution or adaptation, and persistence of decision-making and physical and tactical skills learned in training and by experience.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.