Quotes About Persistence

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

A lungo andare ogni speranza si consuma e si spegne; ma perché non dovrebbe accadere la stessa cosa alla disperazione? Finite le speranze, poi finiranno pure le disperazioni.

Só aqueles que buscam obstinadamente a verdade sabem dos tormentos que enfrentam no caminho... e merecem gozar a glória do triunfo.

Apenas aqueles que passaram longos anos buscando a verdade, imersos na escuridão da ignorância, podem compreender o júbilo transcendente da descoberta.

For some reason, no matter how much I hate a book, I can never manage to just stop reading—I have to see it through to the bitter end.

Justice, like the will of God, doesn't always manifest itself on the spur of the moment. It doesn't always come when you think it should. You just gotta wait it out. And

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

No sé donde pero le encontraré. Oiré su voz y le conoceré. Yo le serviré y le daré mi corazón y mi vida.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

You always have to strive

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. - Marcus Luttrell

it's little things like that, the words of a song, which can give you the strength to go on.

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive.

and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.

I give it everything. On time. Every time. Might not always be good enough, but it's always my very best shot.

No matter how many we ran to ground, there were always more.

Spiritual fitness was important, too. I never allowed myself to forget who was in command as I went through these paces. In the journal I kept, the final words in each entry were the same every day: "Thank you, God, for one more day." No matter how bad things would get, I'd never forget to tell Him that.

But as we are always told, you have to earn that Trident every day. We never stop learning, never stop training.