Quotes About Persistence

However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.

A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

never stop trying and never try stopping

On the road of abnegation," M. Vianney was wont to say, "it is only the first step that is difficult; once we have started we go on almost mechanically.

Determination, perseverance and hard work make the impossible possible.

Du moment que l'on arrête de lire, on s'engage sur la voie de la paresse intellectuelle.

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

they lodge themselves in the infinite corners of recall, and then return in their full regalia in ones and twos and threes, each little bunch stepping forward to corrode the heart with venom again and again.

I like stubborn, wily survivors, and wish I could be one myself. So the next day I walked to his office, to extend my appreciation of his doggedness and to wish him a joyful time of it.

Bir yaÅŸa gelmeden hayat?n ne kadar uzun olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun. Her ÅŸeyinin bittiÄŸiniz san?yorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyac? olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun, vücudun sana inat ölmeyi reddediyor.

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die." "I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.