Quotes About Persistence

Lei sa meglio di me che ho lasciato andar via Camille dieci volte pensando sempre che il treno sarebbe ripassato l'undicesima, il giorno in cui fossi stato pronto. Ed è proprio allora che non passa più. - Non si sa mai con gli scambi. - Ai treni, come agli uomini, non piace girare in tondo. Alla lunga si innervosiscono.

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of when he finds endurance the only alternative.

It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

En la vida psíquica nada de lo una vez formado puede desaparecer jamás; todo se conserva de alguna manera y puede volver a surgir

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

It is so pleasant to feel that we have succeeded in doing what all the People who Know told us was impossible.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the free will owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.

Since I grew weary of the search I taught myself to find instead Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch I sail with all winds straight ahead.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.