Quotes about Persistence

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? the boy asked the alchemist. Because that's what makes the heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World test everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon'.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

Like the children we will never ever cease to be.