Quotes About Persistence

the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.

These questions are futile to answer. Behind the answer there is another answer, and an answer behind that answer, and on and on.

This is what happens when you write books. There's not just something that drives you to find out everything—something begins putting everything in your path.

Something always came along to make you keep living

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

we persevere because we believe rewards will come.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed

La resistencia no es solo la capacidad para soportar algo difícil, sino también la capacidad para convertirlo en algo glorioso».

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

C. S. Lewis once said that God sometimes shows grace by drawing us to himself while we kick and scream and pummel him with our fists. That is my story.

La presencia visible de Dios no mejoró en nada su fe ni la hizo duradera.

In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word "long-suffering." We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.

He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.

As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet. Honesty matters so much less.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do

We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.

Ne postoji ništa što ?ovek može u?initi nego da podnosi. Možete besneti ili možete plakati, ali na kraju ?ete nau?iti kako to podnosti.

Philippa Gregory