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Quotes About Persistence

Who ever exerts himself in constant striving, Him we can redeem.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Le difficoltà crescono quanto più ci si avvicina alla meta. Seminare non è faticoso quanto raccogliere.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wir reiten in die Kreuz und Quer Nach Freuden und Geschäften; Doch immer kläfft es hinterher Und bellt aus allen Kräften. So will der Spitz aus unserm Stall Uns immerfort begleiten, Und seines Bellens lauter Schall Beweist nur, daß wir reiten.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Now that's the sort of love Richard had always been looking for, enduring, defying obstacles, reciprocated.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Fancy finding you here," he said jauntily. Nothing about it was fanciful, and she suspected he might have followed her. Why else would he be there? "You've taken up knitting, have you?" she countered as she walked to the yarn section of the shop. "No,I've taken up finding you alone. Nice of you to accommodate me." His answer pleased her more than she could say, but she warned him, "I'm not alone." "For the moment you are.
~ Johanna Lindsey
But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.
~ Johanna Lindsey
She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Success is something that comes to you after you pull off many seemingly impossible tasks.
~ Johannes Larsson
Yet few came so far, so fast, so alone, as Nixon. Not the governor of California or his aides, nor any member of the state's delegation to Congress knew Richard Nixon's name. He was, he would remember, "somebody who was nothing.
~ John A. Farrell
Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?
~ John A. Passaro
There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.
~ John A. Passaro
Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.
~ John A. Passaro
Find a way. It is that simple.
~ John A. Passaro
When life throws you to your back, you need to know how not to get pinned, get off of your back and do enough to make up the difference in order to win.
~ John A. Passaro
What if the greatest part of the pack have run upon a false scent, may not the hindmost dog hit it off?
~ John Arbuthnot
He thocht weill he wes worth na seyle, That mycht of nane anoyis feyle; And als for till escheve gret thingis, And hard trawalyis, and barganyngis, That suld ger his price dowblyt be. Quharfor, in all hys lyve tyme, he Wes in gret payn, ec gret trawaill; And neuir wald for myscheiff faill, Bot dryve the thing rycht to the end, And tak the vre that God wald send.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.
~ John Barlow
You will always face difficulties in prayer. Just accept it.
~ John Bartunek
It ain't over now 'cuz when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
~ John Belushi
Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
~ John Belushi in Animal House
Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.
~ John Berendt
Offering dragons quarter is no good,they regrow all their parts & come on again,they have to be killed.
~ John Berryman
Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.
~ John Bevere
It will happen but it will take time.
~ John Bowlby