Quotes About Persistence

One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.

Vous lui dites que vous voulez essayer, essayer plusieurs jours peut-être? Peut-être plusieurs semaines. Peut-être même pendant votre vie. Elle demande : Essayer quoi ? Vous dites : d'aimer

Perhaps you'll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Comme quoi une idée est toujours une bonne idée, du moment qu'elle fait faire quelque chose, même si tout est entrepris de travers.

Era demasiado escrupuloso para no esforzarme por ser lo más desgraciado posible.

La felicità è invece propriamente un lampo istantaneo che chiama il calore fisico da ogni parte del nostro corpo e mentre sale al cervello sparisce. L'infelicità, invece, ha un irraggiamento più tenace nell'assalirci e nel durare, e si mostra in più modi anche analogici.

If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.

But life was an irrepressible kind of a chap, and no matter how much I tried to pretend that he wasn't there he kept poking his head through any gaps in my defenses and trying to get me to play with him.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

We must not assume a door is closed but must push on it. We must not assume if it was closed yesterday that it's closed today.

Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i haven't even started yet.

Only infinite patience produces immediate results.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

I said to myself, "Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?

It's like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn't been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all.

you have to do it till you're done

He had learned that determination is suspect, more so as more effort is involved in it.

Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul.

Il ne faut pas considérer les obstacles comme une réalité immuable. Il faut les affronter et voir s'il est possible de les surmonter.

Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie.