Quotes About Persistence

through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

It is nearly impossible.' 'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

That was Jolene, cleaning up even when life was falling apart.

them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow

They'd come here with nothing and made something out of that nothing and they didn't cotton to being told how to live, not by each other or by a government that hardly seemed to know the Great Plains existed.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up.

Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

Our greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in getting up each time we fail.

nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

A nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

Distraction wasn't an impenatrable dam.

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually fighting to overtake the field.

Hearts can do that, you know: hold on to something when the rest of you has forgotten about it. Hearts have longer memories than brains.

An empowered mom must have the courage of a warrior and the persistence of a bull.

Discipline i]t's the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you've started.

THE PILGRIM AT ROME To go to Rome Is much of trouble, little of profit: The King whom thou seekest here, Unless thou bring Him with thee, thou wilt not find.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Never lie, assess character, appeal to principles, answer every question, and determine what impediments might keep them from speaking. Reporters need persistence, not the name of some major publication behind them, to crack a story.