Quotes About Persistence

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

En ocasiones, el camino hacia la felicidad es largo y difícil, pero las pruebas que hay que superar hacen que la recompensa final sea mucho más dulce.

You're like…you're like Abraham Lincoln. Didn't he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.

they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been

You will carry on and find joy in life because being sad doesn't help me.

Algunas veces, lo único que tenemos es la determinación.

Continua a sognare, Agnes Browne! Per il bene di tutti, continua a sognare!

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

I told you, dude," Van Patten says and then patiently restates his facts. "We can't get that. It's like zero zero zero point oh one percentage—

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

My arguments with my Inner Fundamentalist tend to end like this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or not end. They just go on and on.

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart—that's what life is about, that's its task. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

I must not fear,' Ã¢â'¬Â she intoned, her eyes closed. " Ã¢â'¬ËœFear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.' Ã¢â'¬Â It

The hope for homecoming is constitutive of the human condition. Like grass rising through cement, it will irrepressibly emerge and animate human action against all odds.

When ye get the good times, don't stop to mope about the bad 'uns.

Aye, you'll get t'the bottom of things, won't ye, sir!

Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back. [...] You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine. Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus. You're not the brain, by the way.

I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a Tree of Remembrance in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.

practice makes better

Let's see you reconstitute yourself from dogshit!

That's why I admired that kid who spelled it wrong on purpose so he could sit down. He knew he wasn't going to win, so why stand there for 3 hours. First round. "Cat, K-A-T, I'm outta here." Then as he passed you, "Ha! I know there's 2 T's.