Quotes About Persistence

so much the greater is the triumph of faith in nevertheless believing.

Why not, in exchange for the pains and humiliations of being superseded, at least exert the influence that the effete may always bring to bear upon the brash?

Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high pyramids And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll either rend it with my nails to nought, Or mount the top with my aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later? The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature? Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.

In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it.

Yeah, and don't think it's easy finding Ray-Bans in a fruit-bat medium.

Well, it is written, two out of three ain't bad." "Where is that written?" "Dalmatians 9:7, I think—doesn't matter, no one else could have done what you did.

like trying to follow a stream of black oil through a maze of shadows.

feet, and fell again, but this

When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

The path to our goal is rarely straight. It tends to turn and twist, which makes the journey far more enjoyable than it would otherwise be.

Sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes running away isn't an option.

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

m doing my best no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

He had reached his goal. He had climbed the unclimbable mountain

I was in fractures before. I am in fractures now. But the pieces still form the same broken picture.

No es fácil. Por supuesto que no. Las cosas que valen la pena no suelen serlo. Eragon

long journey and that he should

Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks

It is not my habit to hand out secrets like candied nuts on winter solstice. Especially not when they belong to others." He was silent for a few paces. Then: "When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side that pains me

The doing is the thing.