Quotes About Persistence

You were perplexed by the women who came up to your swollen body. Remove your hands, you wanted to say. Don't touch me. What a blessing, they said. What a blessing? No, you were an animal, you thought, a heatless bitch, ewe, cow, doe. You carry one of your own kind. The conception is nothing. That happens whether chosen or not. It is the persistence of life. One is begotten. One begets.

Determination is a champions trait, yet it comes in many forms. To be determined is to be unditered by any one thing, and this is something to be admired.

The world belongs to those who don't give up..

I hope to die at my post: in the streets or in prison.

A veces las relaciones que se cimentan en el daño son más persistentes que las que se basan en el amor.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

It was just a matter of survival?like getting off the road?so we could exist form day to day.

Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

So she'd "teased" Lily as their mother called it, unwilling to concede that one of her girls was tormenting the other with the relentlessness of a pilgrim.

If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.

The foremost challenge for leaders today, we suggest, is to maintain the clarity to stand confidently in the abundant universe of possibility, no matter how fierce the competition, no matter how stark the necessity to go for the short-term goal, no matter how fearful people are, and no matter how urgently the wolf may appear to howl at the door. It is to have the courage and persistence to distinguish the downward spiral from the radiant realm of possibility in the face of any challenge.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place.

The prairie almost seemed to mock them with its beauty. Every inch of their skin was covered with bites upon bites. Their faces were purple and swollen. The mosquitoes bit through cloth, they bit through hair, they were implacable. Every being suffered. Yet they kept moving.

Animikiins used all his skills. But the earth is good at swallowing up all traces of people. At last, in spite Animikiins's great powers, they lost his trail.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

We keep going, we fuel and refuel, we pass on our life to a biped of the next century, with frenzy, at any cost, as if it were the greatest of pleasures to perpetuate ourselves, as if, when all's said and done, it would make us immortal.

our frenzy to persist in our present state—that's the unconscionable torture.

If you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.

I'm a testiculate animal, Ferdinand, and when I have a fact, I hang on to it for dear life

Old and rundown as things may be, they still find the strength, the Lord knows where, to get older.