Quotes About Persistence

When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

out and folding it against

I count a hundred steps and start again. My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure. He said this when we were in the throes of sickness on the Agnes Pauline, and again in the bitter first winter in New York, when four of us, including Mam, came down with pneumonia. Test your limits. Learn what you can endure. I am doing that.

The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.

The world divides between those who can watch television knowing there's an isolated jigsaw fragment lying on the floor and those who can't.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Why doesn't he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?

It's not important to protect an idea. It's important to protect the time it takes to make it real.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

Ne nuk e shquajmë menjëherë rrugën e drejtë dhe shkelim shumë kohë në drejtime të gabuara, derisa dikur ndihemi të lodhur.

Cdo gjë ndryshon. Edhe në grahmat e fundit sikur të jesh, duhet të mundohesh t'ia nisësh nga e para. Por ajo që bëhet, nuk mund të zhbëhet më. është njëlloj si uji që, kur e përziejmë me verë, nuk mund ta marrim dot më mbrapsht.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

I don't need a big idea, I need 1000 small steps: 1000 steps ahead, 500 steps back, 700 steps to the right and then I will end up somewhere. So, you really have to force yourself to trust that process.

Había que sobrevivir. Ése era nuestro primer deber. Nuestro primer combate. Rebelarse significaba, en primer lugar, vivir. O más bien: seguir vivo.

For those who never give up

McGregor had another look at each of the boats, as though he might have failed to notice the first time that one of them was actually fine. They remained consistently jiggered. Short of sticking one of the outboards up his arse, lying on his back and opening his legs, it looked like he was here for the duration.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

the truth doesn't hide, but it sure as fuck ain't easy to find.

We know that we will never confront the exact same circumstances as previous revolutions. But we should also know that certain problems are persistent ones and that if we can't say what we would have done in the past we should not expect people to think much of our ability to face the future.

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

Importunate life. It should have something better to do Than to hang about at a chronic street-corner In dirty weather and worse company.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.