Quotes About Persistence

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Poor little old human beings—they're jerked into this world without having any idea where they came from or what it is they are supposed to do, or how long they have to do it in. Or where they are gonna wind up after that. But bless their hearts, most of them wake up every morning and keep on trying to make some sense out of it. Why, you can't help but love them, can you? I just wonder why more of them aren't as crazy as betsy bugs." —Aunt Elner, 1978

months was ten years.

You save up all your energy for the big push--when you need it. And when you're up there, concentrate. Remain calm and steady as she goes. Don't look right, don't look left, don't let yourself get rattled, just stay the course, nice and easy all the way.

Well, so much for

I think the correct expression according to Kathryn would be, 'sit on a pointy stick and twirl around,' or, in other words, 'perch, pivot, and rotate.

Why would anyone in their right mind continue as I

Voi fi întotdeauna cel care a aÈ™teptat s? i se deschid? uÈ™a, în faÈ›a unui perete f?r? u??".

I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors

Algunos de nosotros se estancaron en la conquista estúpida de lo cotidiano, viles y ruines buscando el pan de cada día, y queriendo obtenerlo sin el trabajo sentido, sin la consciencia de esfuerzo, sin la nobleza de la conquista.

Nunca chegar implica não chegar nunca

There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect. Woe betide the artist who notices this, who one day thinks this. His work can never again be a joy, he will never again sleep peacefully. He'll become a young man bereft of youth and grow old discontentedly.

Querer é não poder. Quem pôde, quis antes de poder só depois de poder. Quem quer nunca há-de poder, porque se perde em querer.

Children, who want at all costs to have their way, are closest to God, for they want to exist.

I gave up everything I searched for in life precisely because I had to search for it.

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

It doesn't faze me when my dreams are interrupted; they're so gentle that I keep dreaming them as I speak, write, answer, or even discuss.

el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.

Há momentos em que tudo cansa, até o que nos repousaria. O que nos cansa porque nos cansa; o que nos repousaria porque a ideia de o obter nos cansa.

Hay algo más cristiano que la mosca? La mosca es constante, persistente, zumbona. A la mosca le gusta andar en las llagas, en el pus, en la basura, como a los verdaderos cristianos.

Ser libres para intentar algo no tiene nada que ver con lograrlo indefectiblemente