Quotes About Persistence

Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning

I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.

I know it took a lot of courage, what you did. I wouldn't want you to think I didn't notice. But that's not what I'm talking about, not really. Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed. It's hope that's hard. You saw something out there that no one else could, and you followed it. That's something I could never do.

Whoever thinks so doesn't understand the first thing about him. He went out there because he just couldn't stand not knowing, not for one more minute of his life.

Don't start something that you cannot finish.

For four years, we worked, we searched, like alchemists in pursuit of the philosopher's stone. And then Miss Dior was born … Because, you see, for a perfume to 'hold', it must first be held for a long time in the hearts of those who created it. CHRISTIAN DIOR

you have to keep upping the ante: run farther, run faster, run uphill. If you don't keep pushing and pushing and pushing some more, the body will settle into homeostasis, albeit at a different level than before, and you will stop improving. This

Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul suffers while it is being pounded in this way, and suffers until it ceases to be. You are pounded down, and that which was you gets into something else. God tries again, and tries until the Work is complete. Meanwhile you, my son, are long gone

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

Everyone keeps telling me what I can't do, but they're wrong. The only thing I can't do is nothing.

Being dead is bad enough. Being dead and still having to walk around and eat is so much worse.

In the end he came to the conclusion that it was like being chased by his own shadow; it could never actually catch him, but it'd never give up trying.

Act 2 is always a grind. With the exception of Acts 1 and 3, it's the hardest part of your standard three-act play.

One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

I'm used to it. Try slamming your fist into a brick wall every day. Eventually you won't even feel the pain anymore.

Srce pravi... Kdaj se bova dvignila? Razum pravi... Kdaj bova šla? Pol leta utrujaš svoje možgane, cilj pa je samo kilometer pro?.

A volte si deve semplicemente aver pazienza. Se una cosa non va, bisogna lasciarla perdere per un po'. Si dà così alla vita spazio perchè trovi da sola una via d'uscita.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

street, but he had forgotten the number of the house. He remembered only that it was a multiple of seven. "So we drove up and down the street," Kamen recalled, "and finally found Number 3528, a multiple of seven, all right. Thinking about it now, I wonder sometimes whether he wasn't pulling everybody's leg a little bit. . . . He had this overwhelming temptation just to snow you.

His coughing was incessant and his weight was down to 115 pounds, skin-and-bones for a man 5 feet 10 inches tall. His energy level never flagged, but he seemed to be literally disappearing little by little, day after day.

Zweifel sind Normal, denke ich. Zweifel stehen am Anfang eines jeden Abenteuers. Und wenn am Ende welche bleiben, liegt darin schon der Beginn des nächsten.

Challenges in life, keeps us in the game." - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.