Quotes About Persistence

When the string breaks while working, there is still the rope. When the oars wear out, there is still the tree, she recited. You feel you can't go on, but you will.

After bracken is picked nine times, it will sprout again. The saying Fall down eight times, stand up nine reminds us of this and symbolizes the wish for the dead to pave the way for future generations

You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Inconvient things are always remembered

But that's not true," Taran called. "I—I was …" By then, Eilonwy was out of earshot. Crestfallen, Taran followed her. "I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard. "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said. "We aren't really expected to.

If you made mistakes, you recognize them. As I told you, there are times when the seeking counts more than the finding.

But there was nothing left to do but continue

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

It's just a thing. You deal with it. As in, one damn thing after another? Yes, very like.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on. What do you find on the other side? When you go on? She shrugged. Your life again. What else?

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

Ivan: ] "... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell." [Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.