Quotes About Persistence

Time to embrace the suck, as his soldier friends say.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.

Nature guards its secrets zealously, and it takes grit and determination to shed light on them.

Life goes on," she says, like a dare.

Or maybe when you have the sheer force of will to keep doing something over and over again until you get it right, winning feels more like relief than anything else.

Never give up on your dreams, because you don't know how many lives depend on you reaching them.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

A distinctive property of functional data structures is that they are always persistent—updating a functional data structure does not destroy the existing version, but rather creates a new version that coexists with the old one. Persistence is achieved by copying the affected nodes of a data structure and making all changes in the copy rather than in the original.

It's not how you fall in life, it's how you get back up.

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Failing is not losing. Failing is growing. Quitting because you failed is losing.

Eventually, morning came instead of bad guys. That was the thing about mornings. No matter how fucked up your life got, how deep and black your despair, how sure you were that you just couldn't take another second of this shit, morning just kept on coming. Over and over. Morning didn't give a damn about your little drama.

the art of survival is a story that never ends

The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.

Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar

Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge.