Quotes About Persistence

But there are ideals which do not play hide-and-seek with our life; they slowly grow from seed to flower, from flower to fruit; they require infinite space and heaven's light to mature, and the fruits that they produce can survive years of insult and neglect.

Agradece a la llama su luz, pero no olvides el pie del candil que, constante y paciente, la sostiene en la sombra

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to be convince yourself of.

because it reminds them of the possibility that it is patience and endurance and loyalty – rather than ambition and desire – that bring the ultimate rewards

As far as he knew a problem couldn't be solved simply by infinitely restating it, unless you relied on infinity itself to break certain factors down.

What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it's better to stay and wear it down.

Sjedite li cijeli dan i smiÅ¡ljate na ? ine kako biti naporanili vam je to prirodni refleks? Kao disanje.«

I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I heard you, sought you, and have found you. I have reached for you, across space and sense and the laws of nature. I do not know how.

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.