Quotes About Persistence

Les montagnes bougent, c'est juste qu'elles bougent lentement.

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action.

Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a perpetual characterization of the individual...It thus assures, in the form of continuity and constraint, a growth, an observation, a qualification.

As my professor remarked after he heard me say I was learning to play the bassoon, "No, you're playing the bassoon. Someday you'll play it better!

Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.

And you can ah till the cows come home.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

It didn't matter. If she was to have any hope of saving Bellusdeo and Maggaron now, she needed to finish what she started; the anger and the self-recrimination would just have to wait. She'd no doubt she'd return to it later; unlike laundry, she'd never left self-recrimination undone.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. —M. C. ESCHER

Many people ask the simple question, "Why can't we cure the common cold?" Actually, we can. But since there are over 300 rhinoviruses that can cause colds, and since they constantly mutate, it makes no sense to develop 300 vaccines to hit this moving target. We simply live with it.

rust never sleeps

Sabía también que la asiduidad y la constancia terminan por mellar el hierro.

Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference.

Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.

I didn't expect that I could do it at first. I have fallen many times, but I stood up and kept going. And I fell again, and I kept going. I didn't feel sorry for myself. There was no way that I felt sorry for myself. I said, "If I fall, I am strong enough, I'm intelligent enough, I can do it!" I stood up and kept going.

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference. If

The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best.

I said, "If I fall, I am strong enough, I'm intelligent enough, I can do it!" I stood up and kept going. I fell and I kept going and going, and each time it became easier and easier. Yet, in the beginning it was so hard, so difficult.