Quotes About Persistence

Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand, tho' for want of Practice, 'tis insignificant to other Business, yet it holds the Bridle better than the Right, because it has been used to it.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?

For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? (When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?)

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.

No matter how many obstacles may block your path, or how dark the way, if you look up, think up, and struggle up, you can't help succeeding. Whatever you do for a living, whatever fortune or misfortune, hold the victorious attitude and push ahead.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.

I feel my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last

I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...

Fuck that shit, I told them, I've started this and I'm going to finish it.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

In her place I would have just laid down in a ditch and cried myself to death. But Amanda says if there's something you really want, you can figure out a way to get it. She says being discouraged is a waste of time.

and there isn't anything I want to do about the fact that you are unhappy & sick you aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.

I waver, I waver. But tomorrow is another day.