Quotes About Persistence

The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.

Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.

I didn't move: I had no moving left in me.

I always stayed. I can't say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or anything.

New Crobuzon again. Unceasing, unstintingly itself. Warm that spring, gamy: the rivers were stinking. Noisy. Uninterrupted New Crobuzon.

Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked them. That was how it was with thorough, and climber, and khepri. When he encountered them for the second time, they surrendered to him, and he read them without pause. In

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping

One step at a time is good walking.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

Water's power is rooted in its ability to conquer all on its path - often not by destroying things in an instant but by patiently eroding the land over time.

This is not a feel-good book. (But I am confident you will feel good after reading it.) It is not a motivational book. (But I promise you will be motivated once you are done.)

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

Everything can look like a failure in the middle." A similar sentiment is expressed by marriage therapist Michele Weiner-Davis, who says that "real change, the kind that sticks, is often three steps forward and two steps back." If failure is a necessary part of change, then the way people understand failure is critical.

People find it more motivating to be partly finished with a longer journey than to be at the starting gate of a shorter one.