Quotes About Persistence

Give me but that, and let the world rub, there I'll stick.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

El modo de dar una vez en el clavo, es dar cien veces en la herradura.

Vinimos de lejos, de muy lejos, huyendo, pero hay cosas que van siempre con uno, que le rodean y envuelven como un ánimo misterioso.

Si vas a detenerte con cada perro que te salga a ladrar al camino, nunca llegarás al fin de él». No sirve itrarle piedras. No le hagas caso.

Vra sa zica ti-i sot? — Da, mi-i sot. — S-acuma umbli dupa dansul? — Ce sa fac? Daca nu umbla el dupa mine, umblu eu dupa dansul.

It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline.

no worthwhile effort in one's life is either a success or a failure.

Freeman Dyson said: "It is characteristic of scientific life that it is easy when you have a problem to work on. The hard part is finding your problem.

The traits that mark an autotelic personality are most clearly revealed by people who seem to enjoy situations that ordinary persons would find unbearable. Lost

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

it is difficult to ignore challenges once one is aware that they exist.

The price one pays for changing goals whenever opposition threatens is that while one may achieve a more pleasant and comfortable life, it is likely that it will end up empty and void of meaning.

The ballet dancer may fall, break her leg, and never make the perfect turn, and the chess player may be defeated and never become a champion. But at least in principle, in the world of flow perfection is attainable.

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult or worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

The challenges of the activity are what force us to concentrate.

The price one pays for changing goals whenever opposition threatens is that while one may achieve a more pleasant and comfortable life, it is likely that it will end up empty and void of meaning. The

hay una manera de salir del bosque oscuro, pero la mala noticia es que el camino atraviesa el infierno. Y

This ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others, and justly so; it is probably the most important trait not only for succeeding in life, but for enjoying it as well.

Yeah, there's a trick I pull for this. When I have a job to do like that, where you have to do something that takes a lot of effort, slowly, I pretend I'm in jail. Don't laugh. And if I'm in jail, time is of no consequence. In other words, if it takes a week to cut this, it'll take a week. What else have I got to do? I'm going to be here for twenty years. See? This is a kind of mental trick.

Robert Galvin says that creativity consists of anticipation and commitment. Anticipation involves having a vision of something that will become important in the future before anybody else has it; commitment is the belief that keeps one working to realize the vision despite doubt and discouragement.

a genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a light-bulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.