Quotes About Persistence

It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one good way to grow. It's not easy to keep learning, But I know that this is so: When you've tried and learned You're bigger than you were a day ago. It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one way to grow.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Adamsberg, badi bene, non attacca, ma ti trasforma, ti accerchia, ti prende alle spalle, ti neutralizza e alla fine ti disarma. Non può essere né braccato né preso. Neanche da lei, Regina Mathilde.

The only way you win is by knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at, and sticking to what you're good at.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Power is measured by the amount of resistance which it overcomes,

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The thing about wings is that they are yours and yours alone. You cannot inherit them from an indulgent father; you cannot buy them in Savile Row; you cannot win them in a lucky draw; you cannot marry them along with a pretty girl; you cannot steal them on a shoplifting spree. You cannot even earn them in a team event. You fight and you struggle, you study and you learn, you practice and you persevere, and finally you do it alone, high above the clouds, in a single-seater.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

I have been trying. For over two years, I've been trying. I continue to try. Why do you always imply it's something I have the power to change?

I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

The difficult is what takes a little time, the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Then one day followed the next without the basic questions of life ever being solved.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help!

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

Step by Step, Ferociously.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.