Quotes About Persistence

Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?

Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret.

Martin Dugard

Don't you worry Stella, we'll get to the bottom of this, you know we will.  We are the best there is in investigative journalism'. 'Yes you're right, we are'.  Stella

It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

time spent sharpening a pencil is never wasted",

Martin L. Shoemaker

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.

as the apostle says, Phil 3:13, it forgets the things that are behind and always stretches out to the things that are ahead.

On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.

The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ears of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never."

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.