Quotes About Persistence

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you're out.

If you don't ask, you don't get. But if you ask and don't get, ask again.

What we resist persists.

The greatest writers have persistence.

I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels.

One key to success is having a clear goal, a plan to achieve it, and then persistence, persistence, and persistence to get there.

Maryanne paid for her purchases, and once everything was stuffed into the blue plastic bags, she headed toward the exit. That's when she spotted her tail again... not six feet away. "Here," she said, thrusting her purchases at J.Z.'s middle. "Since you're sticking to me like used bubble gum to my shoes, you can make yourself useful. Carry these to my car, please." She left him, arms full of bags, jaw agape, and wend to buy a soft pretzel and an icy drink.

Lui sa che lo ami?» «Lo saprà. Glielo dimostrerò ogni giorno finché riuscirà a non scordarlo mai.»

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

E' incredibile come certa gente si arrenda subito. Non sono perdenti, sono quelli che non ci provano nemmeno.

excava un hoyo para tu estanque sin esperar a la luna. Cuando el estanque esté acabado, la luna vendrá por sí sola».

no one ever became excellent in any exercise whatsoever without beginning from his childhood to endure heat, cold, hunger, thirst, and other discomforts; wherefore those men are entirely deceived who think to be able, at their ease and with all the comforts of the world, to attain an honorable rank. It is not by sleeping but by waking and studying continually that progress is made. [on Luca Della Robbia]

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

Nu exist? în?lÅ£imi de neatins, ci numai aripi prea scurte.

sucess is never achieved without hard wwork

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Water sleeps, but Enemy never rests.

But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

I'm a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any chance I get, anywhere I am, for as long as life will let me. Music helps. Good light helps. I love quiet and coffee when I can get them. But I can write on a bus, in a dentist office's waiting room, in bed with a clip-on booklight, almost anywhere. And I try to do at least some every single day.