Quotes About Persistence

Tu vas bientôt découvrir que dans la vie, on n'est jamais arrivé. Et que lorsqu'on pense que, ça y est, on peut souffler cinq minutes, un nouveau défi survient

Parfois, les prières mettent longtemps avant d'être exaucées, mais les plus ferventes le sont toujours.

You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

Undressing him reminds me of trying to change a sleepy, uncooperative four-year-old into his pajamas.-Dom

I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. Hand job is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band.

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.

Different patterns of institutions today are deeply rooted in the past because once society gets organized in a particular way, this tends to persist.

Such critical junctures are important because there are formidable barriers against gradual improvements, resulting from the synergy between extractive political and economic institutions and the support they give each other. The persistence of this feedback loop creates a vicious circle. Those who benefit from the status quo are wealthy and well organized, and can effectively fight major changes that will take away their economic privileges and political power.

The law, designed by the planters and for the planters, exempted one slaveholder from military service for every twenty slaves held. As hundreds of thousands of men died to preserve the southern plantation economy, many big slaveholders and their sons sat out the war on their porches and thus were able to ensure the persistence of the plantation economy.

Alive is better than dead. Always.

As long as you're breathing, your story's still going.

A true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.

I don't think he even knew he had settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma. But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Harrison, now a London resident and forty-eight years old, faded into his workshop and was hardly heard from during the nearly twenty years he devoted to the completion of H-3, which he called his "curious third machine.

The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take; they just have more practice in facing their fears.

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu? This translates roughly to: How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

I know forever they will be in my house, the rooms of my mind, I know this and I have accepted this but while I know they will be there I want them dead there. I cannot have them breathing there! I want them in the floirboards of the basement of my soul.