Quotes About Persistence

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.

But why be discouraged? It would be asking too much of Providence if you were to expect to succeed at the first attempt.

La dicha es como esos palacios de las islas encantadas, cuyas puertas guardan formidables dragones; preciso es combatir para conquistar

And follow me wherever I go?'—'To the world's end.

A man was lying in the middle of the room, in a circle drawn on the ground with a piece of plaster from the wall, almost naked, his clothes having fallen into tatters. He was drawing very precise geometrical lines in the circle and appeared as absorbed in solving his problem as Archimedes when he was killed by one of Marcellus' soldiers.

Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.

Sólo tengo dos adversarios, y no vencedores, porque con la constancia los sujeto, y son el tiempo y el espacio. El tercero, y el más terrible, es mi condición de hombre mortal.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man.

The demon which had whispered this idea to him would not leave him, buzzing in his ear with that persistence which rapidly ensures that some doubts, by the sole force of reasoning, become certainties.

par un de ces bonheurs inespérés qui arrivent parfois à ceux sur lesquels la rigueur du sort s'est longtemps lassée

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'wait' and 'hope'.

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.

catalogue des livres que nous lûmes pour arriver à ce but remplirait un feuilleton tout entier, ce qui serait peut-être fort instructif, mais à coups sûr peu amusant pour nos lecteurs. Nous nous contenterons donc

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

Las ideas no mueren, señor, se adormecen de vez en cuando, pero despiertan más fuertes que antes".

I shall see you again, if I have to set the world on fire for that. - The Three Musketeers

Oui, et je comprends ; pour retrouver une femme, vous faites la cour à une autre : c'est le chemin le plus long, mais le plus amusant.

castramentative

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5

When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

haunts us every step of our lives.