Quotes About Persistence

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

Ser imune ao tédio... É a chave da vida moderna. Se você não se deixar vencer pelo tédio, não existe nada, literalmente, que você não possa conquistar.

And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop--and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable

Nothing would ever have been achieved, he thought, if men had allowed themselves to be diverted by the scale of the problems faced.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

The argument has never been resolved and maybe it never will be.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it

Well, I think it's extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn't mean I think it's easy. There's a difference between the two. It's fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there's difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It's inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It's part of the definition of the work.

Struggle a little bit! At first, it'll be difficult—or awkward—struggling on purpose. But every technique created by Sandler Training requires practice—reinforcement training—to accomplish it.

Kegigihan adalah kekuatan yang tidak kelihatan, yang bisa menyingkirkan rintangan-rintangan besar.

him, trying to do the same.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

Prayer is the kind of exercise that can lead to discouragement if we're not careful. Some of you reading this chapter are discouraged right now, because you keep trying to pray but you can't be consistent with it. Some of you are discouraged because you pray every day and still God has not answered your request.

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

The words that matter always stay.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.