Quotes About Persistence

Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.

When General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was in charge at Saint-Omer (77 letters) reported that it was impossible to embark the entire force in twenty-four hours, Napoleon expostulated, 'Impossible, sir! I am not acquainted with the word; it is not in the French language, erase it from your dictionary.

Many people say I ought to have retired after the war, and have become some sort of elder statesman, but how could I? I have fought all my life and cannot give up fighting now!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,' George Bernard Shaw wrote in 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'; 'the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

But what has been begun must be carried through.'86

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I've found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute.

My day always ends when I'm tired and ready to go home, not when I'm done. I am never done. Like a housewife's, a manager's work is never done.

My day always ends when I'm tired and ready to go home, not when I'm done. I am never done.

The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails. There is nothing I can do about it. Things keep moving. The knackery never shuts down.

I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.

Roll. Tap. Tap. Tap

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.

You stand still, you get caught. You run, you get tired. So.... Learn to lie. Then learn to lie in wait.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Misha plip-plopping behind him.

Al mejor cazador se le escapa la liebre

He hardly ate anything, and only stayed on his feet thanks to his lunacy. But that was a strong stick to lean on. He was not dying anytime soon.

Strzyg, wi­wern, en­driag i wil­koÅ'aków wkrótce nie bÄ™dzie na Å›wiecie. A skurwysyny bÄ™dÄ… zaw­sze.

You catch fear," Ciri repeated proudly, brushing her ashen fringe from her forehead. "Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up. Geralt said so.

Yo, si algo deseo, no sueño, sino que actúo. Y siempre consigo aquello que deseo

I'm alive, she thought. So it's not the end of the fight. The fight only end with death, everything else is just an interruption

Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up.