Quotes About Persistence

There cannot be a heart so hard that weeping, praying and loving sometime will not move, nor yet a will so cold it cannot burn.

for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.

The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.

A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:The next way home's the farthest way about.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;Judge not the play before the play is done:Her plot hath many changes; every daySpeaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Walking by faith is never easy. Especially when it's being tested day after day. All I can say is that giving up is not the answer.

who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.

La muerte trabaja a largo plazo.