Quotes About Persistence

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

No importa que el comienzo sea pequeño; lo que se hace bien una vez, queda bien hecho para siempre.

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

AÃ…Â¥ je tv?j život sebemizernÄ›jÅ¡í, utkej se s ním, prožívej ho.

El divagador encara un problema, pierde interés y lo abandona. El hombre capaz de concentrarse persevera hasta que lo resuelve.

Excellence does not require perfection.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

Even iron sometimes melts.

She hadn't given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.

How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?

She had taken his measure; he was made incorrigibly to try, irredeemably to fail – to be, in short, eternally defeated and eternally unaware. He wouldn't rage he couldn't, for the citadel might, in that case, have been carried by his assault; he would only spend his life in walking round and round it, asking everyone he met how in the name of goodness one did get in.

Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.

used to spare no pains, and I fancied her rummaging in some

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.

For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.

Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another race of men. They are dark, sombre, passionate. They muscle into the bowels of the earth. They wait with a patience which is terrifying. They are the scavengers. They emerge when everything topples into dust.

I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate.