Quotes About Persistence

It is important to be totally prepared, though it is equally important to make sure that you don't overtrain.

In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: "I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something there's no support group for. Semicolons, for instance, I can never give up for more than two hundred words at a time.

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Often in that flickering room the past had come to touch her with quiet persistence, tugging at her sleeve in the effort to capture her attention

And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. The

The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and again

Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.

A eternidade tem as suas pêndulas; nem por não acabar nunca deixa de querer saber a duração das felicidades e dos suplícios.

não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Paciência de curioso, que ninguém a tem maior, nem mais fria.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

Oh, my darling you are not dumb, her father answered. You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

When I am stuck in writing a book, when I am stuck in a problem in life, if I go to the piano and play Bach for an hour, the problem is usually either resolved or accepted.

We are never satisfied with what we have done. We know that our best is never adequate. If I had to be satisfied with what I have written I'd still be on my first novel. But I wrote what was for me the best book I could write at that moment in time.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.

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I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience. That's what I am doing, when I look out at them all: I try to find him, or a version of him.