Quotes About Persistence

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. —You (also, Martin Luther King Jr.)

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

a plan executed in less-than-ideal conditions is always better than a plan that wasn't executed at all.

Take small steps with a long-term perspective.

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

He walks slowly along beneath the dripping pine trees, staring straight ahead of him, like someone who has no idea where he is going, and his red bag is the only spot of bright colour in the driving rain.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

He used to say, 'Do, and expect nothing.' And since he did, his deeds combined to make a substantial reality. For such is the way of deeds: if a man does one thing today and another tomorrow, in the course of time they combine into a great deed.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

But you cannot defeat hope; it is very much like a germ that remains dormant in the souls of men, the type that can be contained but never killed.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

Umeed Nai Zid Honi Chahiye

Kendinde her ?eyi yapabilecek kuvveti görmek, sonra yap?lacak hiçbir ?ey bulamamak... Tükenmek bilmez bir sab?rla bir meçhulü beklemek... Nihayet bütün bunlar? sisli bir havadaki a?açlar gibi belli belirsiz, kar???k bir ?ekilde hissetmek... Bu, uzun zaman dayan?l?r ?eylerden de?ildi.

Tükenmez bitmek bir sab?rla, bir olmaz? beklemek...

The only reason why any of you's still around

Sometimes getting information from him was like unraveling a carpet one strand at a time.