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Quotes About Persistence

Remember that you don't belong to anyone and you only answer to yourself. People may push you around and say negative things, but don't let them bother you. Don't let stress, uncertainty or other negative distractions to keep you from reaching your dreams. Remain confident and true to yourself and good things are bound to happen.
~ Unknown
Life is about KICKING a.. and not KISSING IT!
~ Unknown
Don't let anyone change the direction of your dreams. Be confident, and make the life you've imagined for yourself a reality.
~ Unknown
No matter how much hate and negativity you get, don't let it stop you from doing what you love.
~ Unknown
Until you take action to be, what you desire to be, you continue to be, what you are.
~ Unknown
There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you, proving them wrong.
~ Unknown
Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
~ Unknown
Give thanks to God for what you are now, and keep praying and fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
~ Unknown
She had so little expected to see him that she recoiled in fear. And he himself had run all over Paris not because he thought it was possible to find her, but because it was too hard for him to give up the search.
~ Marcel Proust
Such grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is also the obscure country where it must seek and where all its baggage will be nothing to it.
~ Marcel Proust
So rarely do we meet either with easy success or with irreversible defeat.
~ Marcel Proust
je cherche encore mon chemin, je tourne une rue… mais… c'est dans mon cœur…
~ Marcel Proust
She remembered all the years in which my grandmother and she had refrained from speaking to me about my work and the need for a healthier way of life which, I used to say, the agitation into which their exhortations threw me alone prevented me from beginning, and which, notwithstanding their obedient silence, I had failed to pursue.
~ Marcel Proust
Là où la vie emmure, l'intelligence perce une issue.
~ Marcel Proust
The things one tries hardest to avoid are what one finds one cannot escape,
~ Marcel Proust
Si j'avais vos dispositions, je crois bien que j'écrirais du matin au soir
~ Marcel Proust
A large part of what we believe to be true (and this applies even to our final conclusions) with a persistence equalled only by our sincerity, springs from an original misconception of our premisses.
~ Marcel Proust
Con le donne che non ci amano, come con i "dispersi", sapere di non avere più nulla da sperare non ci impedisce di continuare ad attendere.
~ Marcel Proust
For a long time, I went to bed early.
~ Marcel Proust
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfalteringly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
~ Marcel Proust
This fleetingness of persons who are not known to us, who force us to put out from the harbour of life, in which the women whose society we frequent have all, in course of time, laid bare their blemishes, urges us into that state of pursuit in which there is no longer anything to arrest the imagination. But to strip our pleasures of imagination is to reduce them to their own dimensions, that is to say to nothing.
~ Marcel Proust
May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection. With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.
~ Unknown
No me dejará sin fumar, es para lo único que me queda voluntad.
~ Unknown
un clavo en el muro es siempre un acto de esperanza sobre un lugar físico determinado, de esperanza y persistencia.
~ Unknown