Quotes About Persistence

But what else is there? If we give up now, we're done for." "I might just crawl under my bed and not come out until I'm old and doddering and can't remember feeling anything for anyone at all." She nodded. "You want to, but you won't.

In 1896 she became the first woman to

I'll no' love ye, Kate Campbell. No' ever.

Marcus? He heard her a few minutes later. Marcus. Another part of him. A part that loved her—whether he understood it or not. A part that drove him to continue. Sing to me, he told her. Sing the song we heard the night we went flying, the night at my cave. Sing it and I'll find you. Hurry, Marcus. I'm coming.

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

We can do this. But even if we lose this battle we have to do it. Failure is only final if you stop trying.

Solve a problem that can be solved, don't worry the ones you can't do anything with, girl.

where there is a will there is a way .

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

All good things come to those who wait.

Do I think she has forgotten me; found a new life? Assumed that I was dead, accepted that I was dead. Alexander shrugged. I think about it all the time. I live inside my heart. But what can I do? I have to move toward her.

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.

I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me.

Luchando contra molinos de viento

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

La lucha no termina sólo porque ya conozcas el camino. Eso es sólo el principio.

Aunque mucho perdimos, mucho queda. Y aunque ya no tenemos aquel vigor capaz de mover los cielos y la tierra, seguimos siendo lo que somos... Indoblegables.

Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Dont fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.