Quotes About Persistence

Everything worth having is worth working for, don't you think?

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

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On and on they went.

More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

they were determined to survive to the end of the voyage.

Laurence Bergreen

in 1434, Eannes finally accomplished what so many had said was impossible

and Santiago, to be used

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

Magellan preferred to anchor offshore, away from danger, as he continued his single-minded quest for the strait.

but he had kept his essential mission intact. After twelve months of painstaking preparation

Magellan could only have marveled at the speed with which his plan to reach the Spice Islands had come together.

Three hundred and

Magellan refused to be swayed by the ambassador's entreaties.

The humiliating rejection proved to be the making of Ferdinand Magellan.

And when Magellan