Quotes About Persistence

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Anthony C. Winkler

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

You said that what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.

Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

Aethon," says Olivia. "The fool you were telling us about. In the story? Even though he keeps going the wrong way, keeps getting turned into the wrong thing, he never gives up. He survives." Zeno looks at her, some new understanding seeping into his consciousness.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Waiting is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.

with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.

It's all right," he told her. "Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

We will call him Omeir. One who lives long.

stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a

A single fruit fly in his wine can send a black thread twisting through his mood that lingers for days.

Tantrums, doctor's appointments, therapies, a dozen drives to and from the specialist's office in Boise

Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir.

Beneath his feet the snail kept on, feeling its way forward, dragging the house of its shell, fitting its body to the sand, to the private unlit horizons that whorled all around it.

I am quite gifted at waiting.

It is my one great skill. I was never much good at athletics or mathematics, but even as a boy, I possessed unnatural patience. I would wait with my mother while she got her hair styled. I would sit in the chair and wait for hours, no magazine, no toys, not even swinging my legs back and forth. All the mothers were very impressed.

It's a long story. Do you want to hear a long story?

Elena?" She'll laugh. She'll tousle Werner's hair; she'll whisper, "They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.