Quotes About Persistence

Some professionals will do almost anything for a chance to work on tough tasks.

There is such a thing as reincarnation. If you teach long enough, the same kids keep coming back again.

the only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you're always starting and then leaving

The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can.

Say what you will, he proves to us, in spite of the most debasing experiences that life can offer a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith – and the art! to persist.

Personally I had the feeling as if I had fallen into an ocean of boiling water, and not knowing how to swim or get out in another manner, I tried with my legs and arms as best I could. I did not know what saved me; why I was not drowned or cooked alive. I have perhaps only one merit: I never gave up. But how could I give up in the middle of an ocean? ARNOLD SCHOENBERG IN 1947

Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it. Dad

Was it too late? Could he still gather strength, just throw himself at something, if only to feel that velocity again? What was there to lose, when you gave up on figuring it out…or worse, when you saw that there was no figuring it out?

Part of thinking for oneself is learning to recognize obstacles when they present themselves, and understanding that one must confront those obstacles, not merely ignore them in the mistaken hope that they will disappear.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Runners don't quit. We fade; we hit the wall; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.

If you want to properly tell a story, you have to be willing to write it a thousand ways. And then you must be brave enough to share it with others.

Chasing the dragon is an art, you know – it must be done properly.

Yarvi: 'If we had known the hardship of it, we might have chosen another.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.' Yarvi: 'All we can do now is see it through.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

hope's like damp – however much you try to keep it out there's always a little gets in.

But easy is for the dead,

No debería haberse permitido albergar ilusiones, pero las esperanzas son como las malas hierbas, que siguen apareciendo por muchas veces que las desbroces.

Patience is the parent of success.

Nem lett volna szabad reménykednie, de a remények olyanok, akár a gyom: mindegy, milyen gyakran tépi ki az ember, mindig újra kihajtanak.

But I never stop trying. Doing better next time, after all, that's what life is.