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Quotes About Persistence

They were, yet again, traveling in opposite directions, no matter how hard they tried to reach one another.
~ Paulo Coelho
The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
~ Paulo Coelho
The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.
~ Paulo Coelho
They have the qualities of water: flowing around rocks, adapting to the course of the river, sometimes forming into a lake until the hollow fills to overflowing, and they can continue on their way, because water never forgets that the sea is its destiny and that sooner or later it must be reached.
~ Paulo Coelho
Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend, it whets your appetite with a taste of success.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you are moving toward an objective,' said Petrus, 'it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is te road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk it's length
~ Paulo Coelho
when you really want want something the whole universe conspires you to search for that thing
~ Paulo Coelho
You drown not for falling into a river, but by staying submerge in it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»
~ Paulo Coelho
Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.
~ Paulo Coelho
Setiap pencarian dimulai dengan keberuntungan bagi sang pemula. Dan setiap pencarian diakhiri dengan ujian berat bagi si pemenang.
~ Paulo Coelho
Va' a prendere le tue cose, ha detto. I sogni richiedono fatica.
~ Paulo Coelho
Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho
being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.
~ Paulo Coelho
Ksatria cahaya kadang-kadang berperilaku seperti air, mengalir memutari penghalang jalannya. Aliran air sungai menyesuaikan diri dengan alur apa pun yang tampak mungkin, tetapi sang sungai tak pernah melupakan tujuannya, yakni laut. Meskipun sangat rapuh dari sumber mata airnya, perlahan tapi pasti dia mengumpulkan kekuatan demi kekuatan dari sungai-sungai lain yang dijumpainya.
~ Paulo Coelho
Je voulais comprendre pourquoi j'avais repoussè si longtemps mon plus grand rêves.je voulais surtout me prouver que j'ètais capable de garder cette flamme allumée.
~ Paulo Coelho
they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.
~ Paulo Coelho
Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.
~ Peggy Orenstein