Quotes About Persistence

It's possible I am pushing through solid rock in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone; I am such a long way in I see no way through, and no space: everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone.

They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him

Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.

Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

After such knowledge, and given the persistence of racial violence and the unavailability of legal protection, I asked myself, what else was there to sustain our will to persevere but laughter?

Thus despite the bland assertions of sociologists, "high visibility" actually rendered one un -visible—whether at high noon in Macy's window or illuminated by flaming torches and flashbulbs while undergoing the ritual sacrifice that was dedicated to the ideal of white supremacy. After such knowledge, and given the persistence of racial violence and the unavailability of legal protection, I asked myself, what else was there to sustain our will to persevere but laughter?

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. ? Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . (Vintage International; 2nd edition March 14, 1995) Originally published 1952.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

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