Quotes About Persistence

I used to sit with the bedside lamp on, reading for about two hours after Andrea had gone to sleep, until my eyes were dry and sore, always seeking and never quite finding, but with that feeling of being tantalizingly close.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realized she would have to cast a wider net. Mrs. Elm was right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.

Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

And every moment lasts for ever. It lives on. Somewhere. Somehow.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common

And the thing you need to realise is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles.

People with stamina aren't made any differently to anyone else,' she was saying. 'The only difference is they have a clear goal in mind, and a determination to get there. Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit

Whatever it is you want out of life, make a decision and a commitment first and then work out the how. If you think doubt in your head, you find doubt in the world.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we,Light half-believers of our casual creeds,Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed…Who hesitate and falter life away,And lose tomorrow the ground won today—Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

The world in which we live and moveOutlasts aversion, outlasts love:Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,Remorse, grief, joy.

Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.

What you can vividly imagine ,ardently desire and enthusiastically act upon shall surely come to pass .

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.

Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.

We must not abruptly quit our callings because we have not the success in them we desire.

teaching us to press towards perfection and endeavour that our last works may be our best works.

that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression

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