Quotes About Persistence

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there's nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains!

till dawn are we.

chasing silly rose leaves

been lame in one foot from

Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.

Many wear the Robe, but few keep the Way.

No fairyland is Capua—still, 'tis better Than other lands. St. Vincent licked the stamp and signed the letter, And bound the bands Of that foul, frail red tape which strangles ever The honest energetic fool's endeavour.

If you want something and don' get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price

And I still think," said Olivia, "that it's better to try and fail, doing what you want to do, than not to try." She could not explain it more clearly that that but she knew it was the trying that was important; even if it fails, it goes to swell the sum total of trying, as a martyr's faith, even if he is killed for it, swells the faith of everyone.

Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.' Vincent said that often. "Then why don't people get things?" Asked Lovejoy. "Because they don't want hard enough." Certainly no one could have accused Vincent or Lovejoy of that.

You don't give up writing until writing gives you up. –

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course. Popular demand was intense, but they steadfastly refused. The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.

If the way is diffrent the end is diffrent. Becaws the end aint nothing only part of the way its jus that part of the way where you come to a stop. The end cud be any part of the way its in every step of the way thats why you bes go ballsy.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

it's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

we must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.

It would be a while before Annabelle got back to reading Tidy Magic, but books are patient. We know how urgent and compelling your lives are, and so we bide our time.

It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.

chasing a lie smaller than her dreams.... from: Save Me the Plums