Quotes About Persistence

Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.

Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache.

That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.

So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up there, don't worry, just leap up another flight of stairs. As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards

I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.

And there shouldn't be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. (Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)

Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr inmulti la nesfarsit

one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.

Die Erklärung wird mir auch deshalb schwer werden, weil ich hier alles in sovielen Tagen und Nächten durchdacht und durchgraben habe, daß selbst mich jetzt der Anblick schon verwirrt.

Não me abandonarei à fadiga, lançar-me-ei inteiramente na minha novela, ainda que tenha que me cortar no rosto

Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

de no estar empeñado en la búsqueda, esto me daría sueño.

Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.

It is always the same, always the same

I'm in a tight spot, but I'll also work my way out again.

The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already.

Dann aber kehrte er zu seiner Arbeit zurück, so wie wenn nichts geschehen wäre.« Das ist eine Bemerkung, die uns aus einer unklaren Fülle alter Erzählungen geläufig ist, obwohl sie vielleicht in keiner vorkommt.

Anything but stop halfway

Above all, he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere

None of this was too painful, it was another of life's perpetual little torments, that was all, nothing when measured against what K. aspired to, he had not come to this place to lead a life of peace and honour

Orice om poate fi pentru o vreme în incapacitatea de-a lucra,dar atunci e momentul cel mai potrivit pentru a-È›i aduce aminte de realiz?rile lui anterioare È™i a te gândi c? mai târziu,de-ndat? ce dificultatea va fi învins?,va depune cu atât mai mult? sârguin?? È™i str?danie în munca lui.