Quotes About Persistence

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

I shatter every obstacle.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.

Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.

Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.

In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, "Please God to spare you!" I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been since I began this terrific labor. I

Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on horseback.

La resignación es un suicidio cotidiano.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

somewhere deep in my heart there is a buried seed, a seed of hope. It isn't even a light. I can't see any light to guide me out of this cruel and unfair world. But that seed of hope has always existed, and it implants itself in my mind. Its power is strong. It makes me feel that one day everything will be all right. It is my escape, and my secret dream.

Beauty persists. Which, as truths go, complicates all we need to know.

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.

But the memory stayed, clinging to the walls of her mind like a slimy black leech.

Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

a quote from Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

life goes on. We live to play another day.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo. But the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe I wouldn't say anything motivational at all. It's quite possible that I might briskly slap my hands against my knees and say, "Sounds like it's time you gave up.

every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo.

Alice had yearned to be a little disruptive, but she couldn't work out how you got started.