Quotes About Persistence

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

Never have they been broken through.

si quería obtener lo que deseaba necesitaría dedicar tiempo y estudio. »En cuanto al tiempo, todos los hombres lo tienen en abundancia.

in spite of his misfortune?

Therefore am I more determined than ever to carry through

WHERE DETERMINATION IS, THE WAY CAN BE FOUND.

Life is hard and there will always be some who cannot adjust themselves to it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

It really is true: doing what you please (i.e., what pleases you), with energy, will lead you to everything—to your particular obsessions and the ways in which you'll indulge them, to your particular challenges and the forms in which they'll convert into beauty, to your particular obstructions and your highly individualized obstruction breakers. We can't know what our writing problems will be until we write our way into them, and then we can only write our way out.

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.

It was just a strong feeling in my hart that it was no gud for Foxes to give up and just be ded on perpose.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. - Christmas , In Persuasion Nation

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized. As regards the matter at hand (as regards him), I am, at least, above any— Thus thought Mr. Lincoln. But

The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.

It is a hard, humdrum existence, and only stolid cart horses like Marya Vasilyevna can bear it for a long time; lively, alert, impressionable people who talk about their calling and about serving the ideal are soon weary of it and give up the work.

Showed no sign of abating. roger bevins iii Was proceeding with a fury that suggested the two might well fight on into eternity. hans vollman Unless some fundamental and unimaginable alteration of reality should occur.

Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased.

The runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the marathon. It is only necessary that he runs and runs and sometimes suffers. Then one day he will wake up and discover that somewhere along the way he has begun to see order and law and love and Truth that makes men free. It

William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. "The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make

difficulté d'être.

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.