Quotes About Persistence

Magellan hoped that by going west, in the opposite direction, over water

Magellan believed that he could do what the Genoese navigator had claimed to do but had never actually accomplished:

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

Learn how to work and then the Great Work will be revealed to you.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause—and of obstinacy in a bad one.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning

You gotta dig deep to rise high.

Ik heb het ongelukkige karakter van iemand die altijd achter de volgende heuvel wil kijken, en die nog steeds niet geleerd heeft dat daarachter weer een andere heuvel ligt.

Guardare, ascoltare, leggere, il lavoro non finisce mai.

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

Years might pass and they might change, both of them, but she was sure she would still know her own child, just as she would know herself, no matter how long it had been. She was certain of this. She would spend months, years, the rest of her life looking for her daughter, searching the face of every young woman she meet for as long as it took, searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers.

Once she was behind, how could she catch up?

She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.

He had thrown every rock he could find and it was still not enough.

Sometimes, just when you think everything is gone, you find a way.

Maybe sometimes, she thought, the bird with its head held high took flight. Maybe sometimes, the nail that stuck up pierced the foot that stomped down.

Sometimes, just when you think everything's gone, you find a way.

You just have to keep telling us there'll be more moments.

Come ha fatto a trovarmi? - gli dissi ridendo. - Non è nulla. Ho aspettato. - Tutta la notte. - Tutto l'inverno.