Quotes About Persistence

Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us.

You might just as well argue with a wolf on the trail of a fat Russian peasant.

Most of the Underhills came into the world looking as though they meant to drive their way through life like a wedge.

If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.

Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.

Rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

Love, love, until the night collapses

En ese territorio, de tus pies a tu frente, andando, andando, andando, me pasaré la vida.

Y si no das más, tan sólo encuentra lo que hay en tus manos, piensa que dar amor nunca es en vano. Sigue adelante sin mirar atrás

We must sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot stop Spring from coming

It took me a lifetime.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it

You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk.

Nobody wants you to be an artist or a writer, Maggie said. Not only did the world not care if you ever painted a picture or wrote a book, the world kind of wished you wouldn't. Your challenge was to do it anyway.

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.

The more your mind resists a bad habit instead of embracing it gleefully, the more you will build up the inner strength eventually to overcome it. Thus

Surcharge Your Will Power Through Concentration The way to become receptive is to sit quietly and concentrate your thoughts on a worthy wish until your mind and thought become completely dissolved in that idea. Then will power becomes divine — omniscient and omnipotent — and can be successfully applied toward realizing your goal.

The honey of God, though sealed in mystery, is what the soul truly craves. Those who meditate with undaunted patience and persistence break the mystery seal, and uninhibitedly imbibe the heavenly nectar of immortality.