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Quotes About Persistence

Everything yields to diligence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done
~ Thomas Jefferson
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
~ Thomas Jefferson
46. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 47. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Pokud chcete nÄ›co, co jste nikdy nemÄ›li, musíte být ochotni udÄ›lat nÄ›co, co jste nikdy neudÄ›lali.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan - 'An hour of life is still life'.
~ Thomas Keneally
To the memory of Oskar Schindler, and to Leopold Pfefferberg who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written.
~ Thomas Keneally
No te mates, Clara —dijo—. Si lo haces, nunca sabrás el final.
~ Thomas Keneally
If ever they did shoot her, she would probably stand there protesting,
~ Thomas Keneally
The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan - An hour of life is still life.
~ Thomas Keneally
nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.
~ Thomas Mann
nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.
~ Thomas Mann
One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.
~ Thomas Mann
It's hard to keep going when it seems like you're not getting anywhere, but you'll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination.
~ Thomas Mann
Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.
~ Thomas Mann
Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.
~ Thomas Mann
Hidden away among Aschenbach's writings was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work;
~ Thomas Mann
Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.
~ Thomas Mann
?aden nastrój nie mo?e oprze? siÄ™ zwyciÄ™sko biegowi godzin.
~ Thomas Mann
Nicht alles, was langwierig ist, ist langweilig.' (Thomas Mann to his prospective publisher, in reference to the MS of the novel Buddenbrooks - cited by the Thomas Mann Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck).
~ Thomas Mann
m. He has waited so long-and we all know what torture waiting can be! His whole life is waiting-waiting for the next walk in the open, a waiting that begins as soon as he is rested from the last one. Even his night consists of waiting; for his sleep is distributed throughout the whole twenty-four hours of the day, with many a little nap on the grass in the garden, the sun shining down warm on his coat, or behind the curtains of his kennel, to break up and shorten the empty spaces of the day.
~ Thomas Mann
Casi todo lo grande que existe, existe como «a pesar de», y adquiere forma pese a la aflicción y a los tormentos, pese a la miseria, al abandono y a la debilidad física, pese al vicio, a la pasión y a mil impedimentos más.
~ Thomas Mann
Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.
~ Thomas Mann
Sakykite, kas tai - meil? svetimai sužad?tinei, ir kod?l ta meil? gali tapti sunkiu ilgame?i? min?i? objektu? Jos padar? tai, kad man ? galv? ?m? smelktis vienas žodis, ir, kad ir kaip nor?dama, kad ir kaip drov?damasi, niekaip negal?jau juo atsikratyti. Tas žodis - parazitizmas...
~ Thomas Mann