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Quotes About Persistence

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~ Triumph Books
There will be other ways you can make your mark. Ways that are as satisfying, with far less risk. You only need to be patient, and ready to grasp opportunities when they come." - Lord Rothen
~ Trudi Canavan
If it's hard to like what one isn't good at, will I like it more when I am better at it?" - Sonea
~ Trudi Canavan
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." —Theodore Roosevelt
~ Tucker Max
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
~ Tupac Shakur
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
~ Tupac Shakur
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
~ Tupac Shakur
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
~ Tupac Shakur
When I reached Grand Gulf May 3d I had not been with my baggage since the 27th of April and consequently had had no change of underclothing, no meal except such as I could pick up sometimes at other headquarters, and no tent to cover me. The first thing I did was to get a bath, borrow some fresh underclothing from one of the naval officers and get a good meal on the flag-ship.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
~ Umberto Eco
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
~ Umberto Eco
Her yerde erinç arad?m, ama hiçbir yerde bulamad?m, bir kitapla çekildiÄŸim köÅŸeden baÅŸka.
~ Umberto Eco
The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.
~ Umberto Eco
Querido muchacho —dijo—, este que aquí ves es un pobre franciscano, que con sus modestos conocimientos y el poco de habilidad que debe a la infinita potencia del Señor ha logrado descifrar en pocas horas una escritura secreta cuyo autor estaba convencido de ser el único capaz de descifrar...¿Y tú, miserable bribón, eres tan ignorante como para atreverte a decir que estamos igual que al principio?
~ Umberto Eco
Plan'in olusturulmasi gunlerimizi aliyordu. Buldugumuz en son bagintiyi birbirimize iletmek icin calismalarimiza ara veriyorduk. Elimize ne gecerse okuyorduk: ansiklopediler, gazeteler, resimli romanlar, yayinevi kataloglari.
~ Umberto Eco
because one who knows not how to seek will never find…
~ Umberto Eco
hay dos clases de poetas: los buenos, que queman sus poemas a los dieciocho años, y los malos, que siguen escribiendo poesía mientras
~ Umberto Eco
there was nothing to do but to dig away at the base of this mountain of ignorance and prejudice. You must keep at the poor fellow; you must hold your temper, and argue with him, and watch for your chance to stick an idea or two into his head. And the rest of the time you must sharpen up your weapons- you must think out new replies to his objections and provide yourself with new facts to prove to him the folly of his ways.
~ Upton Sinclair
Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.
~ Upton Sinclair
proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once
~ Upton Sinclair
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
~ Vaclav Havel
una gota de agua no perfora la piedra por la fuerza, sino por repetición»).
~ Vaclav Smil
Val McDermid
~ sempiternal