Quotes About Persistence

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find.

But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

His life was always like this moment -- almost brilliant, almost clever, almost and always not quite.

Failure is the first ladder of success.

for every one to reach the mountain top of his or her desire its really a hustle and hard work

Suviše je jaka i isklju?iva, kao i ja, samo ne žuri da to pokaže, tiha je i uporna, uvjerena da ?e biti onako kako ona ho?e. Njen otpor nije pobuna ve? strpljivo zauzimanje položaja, ne za trenutak, ve? za dugo vrijeme.

Gonila me moja preostala selja?ka upornost i nemilosrdno jasna misao o potrebi da se branim. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri!

Pri?a o životu: ako se tužimo kako nam je teško, klonu?emo; ako kažemo životu: izdrža?u, ne?es me slomiti, muka postaje lakša.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Uvijek ima vremena za ono sto je neprijatno.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.

count to forty.

Nothing is easy in life. No plans were ever unhindered.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono.