Quotes About Persistence

I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you

Se è tardi a trovarmi, insisti, se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro, perché io son fermo da qualche parte ad aspettare te.

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

Resist much.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone; I am to wait--I do not doubt I am to meet you again; I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I will not be outfaced by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

Si em vols tornar a veure, busca'm sota les soles de les teves sabates. Amb prou feines sabràs qui sóc o què significo, però igualment et faré bé, a tu [...]. Si no aconsegueixes arribar a mi a la primera, no defalleixis, si no em trobes en un indret, prova-ho en un altre. M'he aturat en algun lloc, i t'espero.

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.

when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

That's what makes poor people poor...They're looking to find treasures instead of working and saving every day.

To come right down to it, if I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred percent dedication I have to whatever I believe in--these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age. -- The autobiography of Malcom X

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

You always have to keep pushing to innovate.

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.