Quotes About Persistence

Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of painful thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.

Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die.

whoever is diligent will soon be cheerful

But whoever is diligent will soon be cheerful

Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for ever.' 'That's just what it did,' said Diamond.' 'What did?' she asked.' 'Why, the river. That's almost the very tune it used to sing.

the road is difficult. - But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.

Difficulties It often seems to those in earnest about the right as if all things conspired to prevent their progress. This, of course, is but an appearance, arising in part from this, that the pilgrim must be headed back from the side-paths into which he is constantly wandering.

Nothing is so ruinous to progress in which effort is needed, as satisfaction with apparent achievement. It always stops momentum.

be.—I had been refused a few months before

On the credit side, there is a Border virtue which in the human scale should outweigh all the rest, and it is simply the ability to endure, unchanging. Perhaps the highest compliment that one can pay to the people of the Anglo-Scottish frontier is to remark that, in spite of everything, they are still there.

about him, and that all the signs were that he

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.

L?ch sá»­ gi?ng nhÆ° ???c vi?t trên má»™t t?m da, có th? c?o Ä'i và vi?t l?i bao nhiêu l?n cÅ©ng ???c.

Vicisti, O Aspidistra!

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Å»y? nawet tak, z dnia na dzieÅ" i z tygodnia na tydzieÅ", wci?? w tera?niejszoÅ›ci i bez ?adnych widoków na przyszÅ'o??, nakazywaÅ' im instynkt równie niemo?liwy do przezwyci??enia jak ten, który wprawia w ruch pÅ'uca, dopóki w powietrzu jest cho? odrobina tlenu.

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.