Quotes About Persistence

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

None of us ever do," said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. "But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to the mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would not behave properly. Diana could not understand this. 'Make them do as you want them to,' she said. 'I can't,' mourned Anne. 'Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

You couldn't really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?

Oh, I don't know. I've come so far short in so many things. I haven't done what I meant to do when I began to teach last fall. I haven't lived up to my ideals. None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

Non è mai prudente pensare che per noi sia già finita. Quando crediamo di aver scritto la parola fine sulla nostra storia, ecco che il destino usa lo stratagemma di voltare pagina e ci svela che c'è un capitolo ancora.

just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere.

It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly.

Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says.

I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.

Çünkü eÄŸer bir ÅŸey hayal edecekseniz, uÄŸraÅŸt???n?za deÄŸecek bir ÅŸeyler hayal etmelisiniz.

And always when the flash came to her Emily felt that life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty.

Kendimi geliÅŸtirmek için gerektiÄŸi kadar çabalamad?m.

Pussy, however, refused to get down.

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, hedeflerini yüksek tutmamak suçtur.' Ä°deallerimiz olmal?, onlara ulaÅŸmak için çabalamal?y?z; asla tam olarak baÅŸar?l? olmasak bile. Ä°deallerimiz olmasa hayat berbat bir ÅŸey olurdu. Onlar olduÄŸunda ise ihtiÅŸaml? ve müthiÅŸ oluyor. Ä°deallerine s?k? tutun, Anne.

1906 Anne of Green Gables is rejected by four publishers. Montgomery puts the manuscript away in a hatbox.