Quotes About Persistence

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Riding is, therefore, an ongoing, never-ending, challenging process. That aspect makes riding so intelligent and significant an effort. One merely strives, never arrives.

Collecting stones does not make fruits. (Des pierres - Cueillir - N'en fait - Des fruits)

The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.)

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

what was over couldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured;

It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

So he whistles it off, and marches on