Quotes About Persistence

Ä°stediÄŸimiz kadar yüksek duvarlara ç?kal?m, yine kendi bacaklar?m?zla yürüyeceÄŸiz. Dünyan?n en yüksek taht?na da ç?ksak, yine kendi k?ç?m?zla oturaca??z.

If I encounter difficulties in reading, I do not gnaw my nails over them; I leave them there. I do nothing without gaiety.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

It's just a flesh wound!

Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

It's not that kind of game, Han, she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already. The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can.

Al poner demasiado empeño en olvidar, sólo recuerdo; ¿por qué, cuando uno trata de olvidar, no olvida?

Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.

Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

He did not know then what he learned later: God works in silence, God works in a darkness in which we think he has abandoned us, that he is no longer there. Back then he thought only of his misery and discouragement which, he was convinced, came from not being able to continue the pursuit of knighthood.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

I'll wait for you to find me again. So don't take too long.

I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.

You could say I'm a cat with nine lives. As long as there's mice to catch, I intend to keep hunting.

Throughout her career, Catherine seems to have believed that simply by reiterating her demands over and over she could either convince her opponents of the correctness of her position or overwhelm them until they conceded to her wishes.

Never Give up, never surrender.

emphatically. "But even so, I don't suppose we would have

You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true.

the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing's changed and it's all still horrible but you can't cry forever, so there's nothing to do but go on.

It turns out that magical mice high on incense are really good at not being caught.

Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it