Quotes About Persistence

Precisamos fazer as coisas que achamos que não conseguimos.

wouldn't be hard), and then find

La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.

Life does go on.

We don't like writing. We like having written.

Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times we bang our heads against the wall wondering why we do this to ourselves.

Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Un adev?rat artist nu abandoneaz? niciodat? frumuse?ea

But Allison always finished what she started. It was both a saving grace and a tragic flaw.

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Women in the West who insisted on wearing the full-skirted modes of the nineteenth century—including the hoop-skirt, the bustle, and Mother Hubbards—fought a continual battle against a hostile environment. The fact that flowing yards of silk and satin eventually won out over buckskin and rawhide is only one more confirmation of the theory that woman's vanity can conquer all, any place and any time.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.

I can't change any of this. 'No. But you're giving up. I can see it happening.' I'm temporarily retreating, Dave. Don't worry. I'll find my sea legs again.

Accomplishment is one part commitment, one part ability, one part persistence, and one part circumstance. Circumstance we cannot control. The rest we might.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

Success achieved on the basis of struggle may bring good things to us, but the inner fulfillment we seek from these things will be lacking.

When you dig a well, there is no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way.

One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention.

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.

There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.