Quotes About Persistence

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

I guess research isn't for everyone." "Certainly not for the faint of heart or the unfaithful.

Approaching White Oak Swamp from the north, he sent a crew to rebuild the bridge over the creek. When Union artillery and sharpshooters prevented this, Jackson lay down and took a nap.

God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me. - The Dreamer

was. The constant learning and

But then, she thought, every once in a while there's a glimmer of hope. Just a blip on the horizon, a whack on the nose of the giant that set him back on his heels or to the canvas, something that said, Guess what, you so-and-so, I am God's child. And I. Am. Still. Here.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

Spend one hour every day thinking about your goal and how to get there.

Only that which can change can continue.

Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.

Another day. Get up and face it.

Gazzy: Just Ten? Angel: No. Gazzy: Five? Angel: No.

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.

You must do today what nobody else will do, so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can't.

Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down.

Ce n'est pas fini jusqu'a ce que je dis c'est fini, Rampling called out. It's not over until I say it's over.

Every day from the crack of dawn, he said- and i completed the rest, until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer

life is supposed to have ups and downs. But for me, it's been more like ups and downs... and downs... and downs.

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Attempting to drive a car before you find and release the parking brake is like trying to drag a Saint Bernard into a bathtub. But

Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer.

We Irish don't always succeed, but we're pretty decent at grinding it out.

I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.

third or fourth.