Quotes on Perseverance

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.  ~Author Unknown


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.  Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.  If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.  ~Dale Carnegie


Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.  ~Author Unknown


When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  ~Josh Billings


The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.  ~Author Unknown


Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~Japanese Proverb


Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.  ~Newt Gingrich


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


He conquers who endures.  ~Persius


The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.  ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."


You can't go through life quitting everything.  If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something.  ~From the television show Family Matters


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  ~Albert Einstein


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.  ~Author Unknown


Perseverance... keeps honor bright:  to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.  ~William Shakespeare


The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.  ~Lucretius


But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Don't be discouraged.  It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.  ~Author Unknown


The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Saints are sinners who kept on going.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.  ~Buddhist Saying


I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.  ~Author Unknown


Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.  ~Charles F. Kettering


One may go a long way after one is tired.  ~French Proverb


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.  ~Robert Schuller


Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.  ~William James


Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.  ~Author Unknown

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  ~William Feather

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.  ~Jacob A. Riis

Fifa...

RTR threw a challenge to score 5 past in worldclass...I said OK. No problemo. I think I scored 4 but next game messed the keeper real bad. Scored 11 past him in worldclass and the keeper was shitting a brick everytime I went on a counter.

But it's off for a while now. I don't see what to play for now. Switched to Mafia and this game is bloody fucking slooow...I feel old already; when I put my hands on a new game, I'm awfully slow off the blocks. Geez, after CS, adventure and theme games feel like slow deaths. 

WOMS keep playing AOE and asks me occasionally, whether I'd play but it feels like too much work. And what's the point of a game if it looks like work?

Long Road To Freedom - Nelson Mandela (Favorite Passages Part I)

Just recently a friend of mine reminded me that I have a blog also. It's been years since I last wrote something in this one. There's much to say; I'll start with some of my favorite passages from Rolihlahla's biography.

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."


What he read...
"I acquired the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao-Tse Tung and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism. I had little time to study these works properly. While I was stimulated by the Communist Manifesto, I was exhausted by Das Kapital. But I found myself strongly drawn to the idea of a classless society, which, to my mind, was similar to traditional African culture where life was shared and communal. I subscribed to Marx's basic diction, which has the simplicity and generosity of the golden rule:
'From each according to his ability;
      To each according to his needs.'"

"Marxism's call to revolutionary action was music to the ears of a freedom fighter. The idea that history progresses through struggle and change occures in revolutionary jumps was similarly appealing. In my reading of Marxist works, I found a great deal of information that bore on the type of problems that face a practical politician."

The absurdities of classification...
"The Population Registration Act authorised the government officially to classify all South Africans according to race. If it had not already been so, race became the sine qua non of South African society. The arbitrary and meaningless tests to decide black from colored and colored from white often resulted in tragic cases where members of the same family were classified differently, all depending on whether one child had a lighter or darker complexion. Where one was allowed to work and live could rest on such absurd distinctions as the curl of one's hair or the size of one's lips."

Mandela on Gandhi and Indian struggle...
"In India Gandhi had been dealing with a foreign power that ultimately was more realistic and far-sighted. That was not the case with the Afrikaners in South Africa. Non-violent passive resistence is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rule as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at end. For me non-violence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using and ineffective weapon."

"A slogan is a vital link between the organization and the masses it seeks to lead. It should synthesize a particular grievance into a succint and pithy phase, while mobilizing the people to combat it."

"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire."

Mandela's dilemma...The choice between family and nation.
"I wondered - not for the first time - whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shriking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?"

Mandela on Keeping yourself in touch with your roots...
"It is important for a freedom fighter to remain in touch with his own roots, and the hurly-burly of city life has a way of erasing the past."

"I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponents."

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

Quotes

I feel devoid of comprehensible thoughts that may be put down in writing and posted. What to write!? umm...Ok i'll write some of my favorite quotes that i feel very relevent and rejuvenating...

"Every morning sees some task begun,
every evening sees it close;
Something attempted done,
has earned a night's repose;"

"Always forgive your enemies; Nothing annoys them so much" - Oscar Wilde

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." - Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts" - Einstein

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu

"When you have only two pennies left in the world , buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."