Quotes About Persistence

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

Why would you ever rest from what you love?

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

getting good passes.

But how do you stop being afraid? He asked, and his hands made little jerks up and down. I guess you don't really ever stop, I said, But you just have to go on. Like Stanly. You just have to get up in the morning and see what happens. Even though it is hard.

A happy ending for today," corrected Ramona. Tomorrow they would begin all over again.

When Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of the family and the youngest person on her block.

Ramona did not consider herself to be a pest. People who called her a pest did not understand that a littler person sometimes had to be a little bit noisier and a little bit stubborn in order to be noticed at all.

and we could see how it works out.

Never again would he stand all day at a cash

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill.

They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit.

Scheele independently discovered eight elements—chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen—but received credit for none of them in his lifetime. He had an unfortunate habit of tasting every substance he worked with, as a way of familiarizing himself with its properties, and eventually the practice caught up with him.

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you trod you are always in the same place - in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow.