Quotes About Persistence

Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.

El demonio es paciente en su empeño por devorar y destruir la obra de Dios.

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands, we are apt to suck our thumbs and decry our fates. As if nothing were to be done in cloudy weather, or, if heaven were not accessible by the upper road, men would not find out a lower... There are two ways to victory, - to strive bravely, or to yield. How much pain the last will save we have not yet learned.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

They say that characters were engraven on the bathtub of king Tching-thang to this effect: 'renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.' I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

Celui qui ne résiste pas ne sera jamais vaincu.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

you must everywhere build on piles of your own driving.