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Quotes About Persistence

The man who runs may fight again.
~ Menander
He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.
~ Menander
Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.
~ Unknown
Allà dins hi havia viscut gent. De la vanitat, de l'odi, de les miques d'amor, en quedava la pols i un trist espectacle d'esplendor i d'oblit.
~ Unknown
The only way to do it is to do it.
~ Merce Cunningham
what you love, doesn't matter what it is, or who it is—that's your heart and spirit, that's you. Don't let anybody talk you out of it, don't let anybody get in its way. Otherwise you live with a hole in your heart." Then
~ Unknown
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
~ Unknown
My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on.
~ Unknown
Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned." Only thirty percent of published books turn a profit, so we can rule out material motivation.
~ Unknown
Who ask don't get who don't ask don't want who don't want don't get who don't get don't care
~ Unknown
If you've done the best you can-if you have done what you had to do -there is no use worrying about it because nothing can change it .........and you have to be fresh for the next day. What you're going to do is more important than what you have done.
~ Unknown
In life, there might be situations that make you sink, It's just to make you stronger than you think, Be like mercury not like glass when you get troubles, Split but join the mercury bits before it's lost in life's puzzles
~ Unknown
Success is not served in a tray, To achieve it we have to make our own way, I would like to end by saying that opportunity is within, To fall down on our journey is not a sin, But our failure should not hold our steps forward, And for our dreams, we should never feel awkward
~ Unknown
Merline Lovelace
~ Unknown
Não vê os rios que nunca enchem o mar? a vida de cada um também é assim, está sempre toda por viver...
~ Mia Couto
Esperar não é a mesma coisa que ficar à espera.
~ Mia Couto
Quem pede sempre, não sabe querer.
~ Mia Couto
Todas as manhãs a gazela acorda sabendo que tem que correr mais veloz que o leão ou será morta. Todas as manhãs o leão acorda sabendo que deve correr mais rápido que a gazela ou morrerá de fome. Não importa se és um leão ou uma gazela: quando o Sol desponta o melhor é começares a correr.
~ Mia Couto
A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.
~ Mia Hamm
Love goes on. The love of friends. Friendship is my oxygen. I've said that often and it's true. Writing goes on too: I keep on building my paper house; my chrysalis
~ Unknown
In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning out electric typewriters; Microsoft's Bill Gates was a freshman entering Harvard; and Steve Jobs, the future co-founder of Apple Computer, was a college dropout wandering around India in search of his Zen master. But
~ Unknown
Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]
~ Unknown
Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.
~ Unknown
To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed—that is the bottom line.
~ Michael Azerrad