Quotes About Persistence

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Most of [the alchemists] were poor; many all but unknown in their own time, many died and saw no fruit of their labours… Of some the very names are forgotten. But though their names be dead, their works live, and grow and spread over ever fresh generations of youth, showing them fresh steps towards that temple of wisdom which is the knowledge of things as they are.

Pronto aprendimos a llevar varios problemas a la vez: un problema difícil que deba ser visitado y revisitado una vez tras otra a lo largo de muchos meses o años antes de que se abra la cáscara, con la esperanza de una gran ganancia; y otros problemas mucho más fáciles, con ganancias más inmediatas.

Ruhe gibt es nicht, bis zum Schluss. Und dann? Auch am Schluss steht noch ein Fragezeichen. (There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.

There was a merciless gnawing in my chest, a queer silent labor was going on in there. I pictured a score of nice teeny-weeny animals that cocked their heads to one side and gnawed a bit, then cocked their heads to the other side and gnawed a bit, lay perfectly still for a moment, then began anew and bored their way in without a sound and without haste, leaving empty stretches behind them wherever they went.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Man sværmer om sommeren, så holder man op for den gang. Men nogen sværmer hele sitt liv og står ikke til å forandre.

During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on, adding new ideas that occurred to me in the course of the day, crossing out material or freshening up the dead passages with a lively word here or there, and pushing on from sentence to sentence with great labor.

Jeg gik Dag efter Dag i Aaserne med Æsop ved min Side og jeg ønsket intet heller end at faa vedbli at gaa der Dag efter Dag, skjønt det endnu laa Sne og bløt Sørpe over den halve Mark.

I am like the salmon- i have to swim against the current- i have to.

Hun var ikke fordærvet og han elsket hende Herrens meget; men hvad hjalp det? Gå hele livet og vite alt!

I am like the salmon- i have to go against the stream- i have to.

Hr. Oftedal holder en stilling som mangen minister kunne misunne ham. På ti år har han drevet det til å bli en av Norges nevneverdigheter, – og det i ti bevegede år, hvori større skikkelser enn hans er falt uten å huskes mer, og større evner og krefter enn hans har kjempet uten å vinne.

Men dagene gik igjen og det skedde intet galt fordi dagene gik.

Jeg knæler og rækker Hænderne frem endskønt jeg hører dit Nej. Tag disse Blomster med Tak for dem du pynted med paa min Vej. (Med røde roser)»

det skal en viss grad av ringhet i ævnen til å gå og være varig tilfreds med livet og atpå kjøpet vente sig noget nyt og godt av det.

Follow your dreams. They know the way.

If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

If I have to scour the entire earth, I'll hunt her down. I will no' falter. One day I will bring my female back to my home - back to my bed...She was born to be found by me. -Garreth MacRieve, King of all Lykae

Nothing good ever came easy." (Garreth)

Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it.

Take it out, then.

I can't let you go. I'll never do that. Not until I die.