Quotes About Persistence

pero si te vas, luego no valen quejas. Mientras sigas intentándolo, hay una posibilidad. Pero ¿si te rindes? Ahí es cuando muere el sueño.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will.

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Never forget that what may look like God's insensitivity is nothing of the sort, but rather an invitation to draw closer to Him through persistent praying in faith.

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis

We shall pursue our dreams "until [we] reach[…] it. Or fail[…] trying.

But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

When you're at a wall, start climbing.

Tony smiled broadly as he pushed past Jade and walked into the entranceway. "There's these two sperm swimming. And they're exhausted. They've been at it forever, seems like hours. Finally, one turns to the other and says, 'Hey! How much longer we got?' Other sperm looks back at him and says. 'Who you kidding? We just got past the esophagus!' " His laughter started as soon as he finished the joke.

I guess that's the challenge, huh?" Travers said, continuing to flip through the notebook.

Follow your dreams, they say. But what no one ever tells you is what you have to give up in the process. The sacrifices. The thousand ways your life can go to hell while you keep your eyes on the horizon, waiting for that sun to rise. From 'Or She Dies'.

Le idee sono spesso surrogate dalle emozioni. Sono più dure a morire, resistono meglio al tempo e tanto meglio quanto più sono irrazionali.

But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) — that didn't end in the Cross — but he couldn't find a strategy more soaked with fidelity that the one he embraced

The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...

Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.

because you've chosen poetry, you're condemned to wonder at skills and felicities of language or imagination in the poems of others that you yourself may never achieve, no matter how hard you work toward them—things that will always be beyond your reach but also will always be luring you on.

Health... is not so much a state, but a force: the power to resist and overcome threats to one's well-being.