Quotes About Persistence

People who can solve a lot of problems by simply dying are the ones who hang on and on.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

I'll die, but before I'll run

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I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

In this way, the Odyssey's hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure suffering is as necessary for success as the ability to perform brilliant feats.

from Crete he made his way, racked by hardship, tumbling on like a rolling stone until he turned up here.

It's peculiar to me,' she said, 'that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me - who want to die but haven't got the guts -

This country didn't get fucked up in 100 days and it's not going to get fixed in 100 days.

You don't have to feed the lie if you don't want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you've decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.

If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

Women struggled to enter the all-male professional schools. Dr. Harriot Hunt, a woman physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School. But she carried on her practice, mostly among women and children. She believed strongly in diet, exercise, hygiene, and mental health. She organized a Ladies Physiological Society in 1843 where she gave monthly talks. She remained single, defying convention here too.

Twenty five years later the sheriff was gone, but Sherrod was still in Albany, organizing farming cooperatives.)

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.

sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

Still humping the American Dream

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off." —J. Conrad