Quotes About Persistence

Dar cel care cauta asa cum trebuie gaseste intotdeauna. Nu exista vreo problema fara solutie. Daca nu o gasesti, e pentru ca nu ai cautat-o asa cum trebuie ori indeajuns. Orice broasca are o cheie. Nici un lacatus nu este destul de nebun ca sa fabrice broaste fara cheie.

Viata pe pamant e ca un torent. Trebuie sa-l traversezi inot pentru a ajunge pe celalalt mal. Grijile de capatai ale omului de pe pamant sunt de a nu fi purtat de torent. De moda. De noutati. Doar animalele moarte, cadavrele, sunt duse de curent. Trebuie sa tii capul sus daca vrei sa inoti bine.

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.

At last she pointed to a second tier in the center of a large block. To reach it we had to stand on the bottom level, haul ourselves up, and then crawl across three other straw-covered platforms to reach the one that we would share with—how many?

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

The best exercise for you is the one you will do regularly

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

People are always looking for a shortcut to success, but there's no substitute for hard work and dedication.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

But the mind is a truth-seeking organ. To use that old cliché about our hearts, it wants what it wants.

Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

People who always want what they refuse to earn, eventually get what they deserve.