Quotes About Persistence

Le non, on l'a déjà dans notre poche, Momo. Le oui, il nous reste à l'obtenir.

Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód.

Te-mpaci cu eÅŸecul? — M?-mpac cu lupta neîncetat?. Dup? mine, victoria const? chiar în lupt?, nu în deznod?mântul ei. F?r? s?-mi uit scopul, renunÅ£ la iluzia de a câÅŸtiga.

trying his best to discourage them,

Even the clearest skies become cloudy.

Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.

The hang-up calls both annoyed and unsettled her. There had been a lot of them lately, and when she checked the caller ID, the numbers were all unavailable. Telemarketers, most likely.

the extraordinary eighteenth-century proliferation of literature which glamorized romantic experience.

After all, in their fears about the vicious consequences of wealth, writers fell back upon stereotypical images of devouring, unreasonable womanhood, images that were as old as Eve herself–something which suggests we might better view such accusations as testimony to the persistence of male anxieties, rather than a simple guide to female behaviour. 13

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

For the woman within, if she be of noble strain, is never content with what she has attained; she unceasingly presses forward, in lively hope of some better way, or some more tangible truth.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than to finish it.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.