Quotes About Persistence

You're still trying to get out of hell, and it's a long climb. You'll think flight may be the answer, but you don't learn to skateboard by watching boys on the half-pipe, and you don't learn to fly by watching boys jump off cliffs, shirtless, skinny, while you hold the car keys.

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

Eventually, ecstatic, she outlasted the night.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Preach Jesus and hold unto God until the signs follow. There is something wrong unless they do follow. Don't wait until you have any special gift. Believe you can do it and it will be done.

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Human life – an Everest that all sorts of thoughts and desires are trying to climb.

to that. You couldn't go through that. You just

Marianne Hering

Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes. Know that it will be there when it says, "I shall be there when the wave has gone by.

Lo necesario es caminar, caminar siempre, no estacionarse jamas; ser duenos del valle, de la planicies, de la sierra y de todo lo que la vista abarca.

Que cuál es el secreto de la perseverancia? —El Amor. Enamórate y no "le" dejarás»[8]. Porque el amor es más fuerte que la muerte.

Another thing to study," Natalie said, amused. "Will you ever be done?" I smiled into the sun, one hand holding my bonnet against the firm grasp of the wind. "I should hope not. How dreadfully tedious that would be.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

first principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Every pro starts off as an amateur. There's not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown