Quotes About Persistence

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. The

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Read Above Your Head--"You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.

Ah, kendi kederleri olmayanlar için ne kadar kolay gayret et demesi!

I am not now to learn, replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long.

People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

Without patience I could never have succeeded.

That's wonderful, but doesn't it feel like a drop in the ocean, given the overwhelming autocracy or tyranny that people are facing around the world?" "But millions of drops actually make the ocean." I smiled. Hope, checkmate.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

Hope,' Jane said, 'is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

Hope, on the other hand, is a stubborn determination to do all you can to make it work.

The forces raging around us—greed, corruption, hatred, blind prejudice—are ones we might be foolish to think we can overcome. It's understandable

He wanted a wife, but this chase, this dance one had to do to get a wife, was downright wearying. Perhaps that's why he'd been such a failure at finding a bride. He wanted it to be easy. To meet a girl, point a finger and say, "You're the one." And she would, of course, swoon as she said, "Yes, I'll marry you." Wasn't that the way it'd been done in years past? Arranged marriages were so much more practical.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Dean Harstad had unbounded patience, the very patience that drove Chairman X bananas, patience as a weapon.

Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset. Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake. Morelli said. I'll find you. You are such a cop. Tell me about it.

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.