Quotes About Persistence

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Peux ce que veux. Allons-y.

Don't withdraw, don't surrender, don't give up.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.

Le plus grand effort de ma vie a toujours été de parvenir à désespérer complètement. Il n'y a rien à faire. Il y a toujours en moi quelque chose qui continue à sourire.

Šiaip ar taip, ? nevilt? nepuoliau. Ir dabar jai nepasiduodu. Tik apsimetu. Sunkiausias dalykas gyvenime man visada buvo m?ginimas visiškai nusivilti. Nieko nepadarysi. Manyje visada yra kažkas, kas nesiliauja šypsoj?sis.

Je n'avais encore jamais vu un sourire aussi immuable et je me demandais si elle l'enlevait pour dormir.

You've always gone all the way, haven't you? — Well, all the way doesn't turn out to be so very far, after all...

Obviously, I wasn't mistaking cathedrals for custard, but, having been raised among the kites of 'that crazy old Fleury,' I had a soft spot for anything that allows a man to give the best of himself.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...

Les Américains ne peuvent supporter l'idée d'un problème sans solution.

He always remembered it vividly when he was in physical pain and when the limit of his strength seemed to have been reached, and it was a memory that helped him every time to hold out and to go on.

il se demandait parfois jusqu'où on pouvait aller nulle part.

stones are hard everywhere.

Die ganze Dunkelheit der Welt reicht nicht aus, das Licht einer einzigen Kerze zu löschen.

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.