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People can disappoint you, but your heart and your head will never. 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The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one’s convictions.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John P Marquand", "slug": "john-p-marquand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-p-marquand" }, "book": { "title": "The Late George Apley", "slug": "the-late-george-apley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-p-marquand/the-late-george-apley" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_P._Marquand#The_Late_George_Apley_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:30" }, { "id": "15f298f8-f818-43ee-bf0f-f2dca79c4181", "slug": "your-own-endurance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres/your-own-endurance", "text": "Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who’ve really faced the facts.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Smiley", "slug": "jane-smiley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley" }, "book": { "title": "A Thousand Acres", "slug": "a-thousand-acres", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley#A_Thousand_Acres_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:25" }, { "id": "2763ff30-49e6-4019-99a6-35c975ddce52", "slug": "lord-save-little", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/davis-grubb/the-night-of-the-hunter/lord-save-little", "text": "Lord save little children! They abide. The wind blows and the rain is cold. 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Basia had no doubt that they’d work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn’t something he’d ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James S. A. 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Difficult. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Scott Lynch", "slug": "scott-lynch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch" }, "book": { "title": "Red Seas Under Red Skies", "slug": "red-seas-under-red-skies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 93, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#Red_Seas_Under_Red_Skies_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:18" }, { "id": "d1000954-28d1-4e6b-a314-ea1c36aeb6d5", "slug": "a-man-must", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-cloud-walker/a-man-must", "text": "A man must either fall or rise in adversity.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edmund Cooper", "slug": "edmund-cooper", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper" }, "book": { "title": "The Cloud Walker", "slug": "the-cloud-walker", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-cloud-walker" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Cooper#The_cloud_walker_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:00" }, { "id": "9226a095-d709-43c6-b0f2-33fa1bd1d7c7", "slug": "no-matter-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate/no-matter-how", "text": "No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. 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A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear. ... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "Legend", "slug": "legend", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/legend" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "dignity", "slug": "dignity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Legend", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:53" }, { "id": "03c935ea-998c-4738-b93b-f8ca285d5199", "slug": "i-dont-give", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/legend/i-dont-give", "text": "I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "Legend", "slug": "legend", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/legend" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Legend", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:53" }, { "id": "121e0425-19ff-4ac5-a8d5-f5da630ab1a3", "slug": "the-most-important", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/the-most-important", "text": "The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it?\n\nIt’s the next one.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Brandon Sanderson", "slug": "brandon-sanderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson" }, "book": { "title": "Oathbringer", "slug": "oathbringer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 1133, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:39" }, { "id": "819fb609-fc3c-45b8-9811-3f9362eaf964", "slug": "life-before-death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/life-before-death", "text": "Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Brandon Sanderson", "slug": "brandon-sanderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson" }, "book": { "title": "The Way of Kings", "slug": "the-way-of-kings", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 607, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#The_Way_of_Kings_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:35" }, { "id": "a6676e13-5a4f-4fbd-83ee-0208b45a0f3d", "slug": "always-i-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/og-mandino/the-greatest-salesman-in-the-world/always-i-will", "text": "Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.\n\nI will persist until I succeed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Og Mandino", "slug": "og-mandino", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/og-mandino" }, "book": { "title": "The Greatest Salesman in the World", "slug": "the-greatest-salesman-in-the-world", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/og-mandino/the-greatest-salesman-in-the-world" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 65, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Og_Mandino#The_Greatest_Salesman_in_the_World_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:22" }, { "id": "851f54db-1070-4707-866b-ac2844b9043a", "slug": "i-will-avoid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/og-mandino/the-greatest-salesman-in-the-world/i-will-avoid", "text": "I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. 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They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Heavenly Fire", "slug": "city-of-heavenly-fire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "heroism", "slug": "heroism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/heroism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Heavenly_Fire_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:03" }, { "id": "e960d513-aac1-41e9-99ba-6148a22c7660", "slug": "the-ibo-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/things-fall-apart/the-ibo-people", "text": "The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chinua Achebe", "slug": "chinua-achebe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe" }, "book": { "title": "Things Fall Apart", "slug": "things-fall-apart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/things-fall-apart" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 29, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#Things_Fall_Apart_(1958)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:54" }, { "id": "c5f9f208-1ea6-4264-b17d-81a283c5a93b", "slug": "its-not-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/its-not-how", "text": "It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Randy Pausch", "slug": "randy-pausch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch" }, "book": { "title": "The Last Lecture", "slug": "the-last-lecture", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_Last_Lecture_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:46" }, { "id": "807edc4d-4ac8-4dc0-8048-7129aaba50d5", "slug": "never-give-up-there", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/never-give-up-there", "text": "Never give up: There are certain times that you think, “OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. 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They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Randy Pausch", "slug": "randy-pausch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch" }, "book": { "title": "The Last Lecture", "slug": "the-last-lecture", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_Last_Lecture_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:46" }, { "id": "14f1337c-fbf9-4892-89ba-3e01c489c4df", "slug": "the-brick-walls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/the-brick-walls", "text": "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Randy Pausch", "slug": "randy-pausch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch" }, "book": { "title": "The Last Lecture", "slug": "the-last-lecture", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_Last_Lecture_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:46" }, { "id": "53d95b35-8a73-4e7b-8179-3e91894d7c0c", "slug": "the-first-rule", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sir-ronald-cohen/the-second-bounce-of-the-ball/the-first-rule", "text": "The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sir Ronald Cohen", "slug": "sir-ronald-cohen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sir-ronald-cohen" }, "book": { "title": "The Second Bounce Of The Ball", "slug": "the-second-bounce-of-the-ball", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sir-ronald-cohen/the-second-bounce-of-the-ball" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "business", "slug": "business", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Cohen#Book_The_Second_Bounce_of_the_Ball_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:53" }, { "id": "4cfd76b1-c34a-4e2b-a576-be74f1966d52", "slug": "i-also-think", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/angela-y-davis/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle/i-also-think", "text": "I also think it's important for us to think forward and to imagine future history in a way that is not restrained by our own lifetimes. Oftentimes people say, well, if it takes that long, I'll be dead. So what? Everybody dies, right? And if people who were involved in the struggle against slavery-I'm thinking about people like Frederick Douglass, or Ida B. Wells in the struggle against lynching if they had that very narrow individualistic sense of their own contributions, where would we be today? And so we have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Angela Y. Davis", "slug": "angela-y-davis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/angela-y-davis" }, "book": { "title": "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle", "slug": "freedom-is-a-constant-struggle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/angela-y-davis/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "the future", "slug": "the-future", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Freedom_is_a_Constant_Struggle_(2015)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:52" }, { "id": "c3b008fd-437e-4c3f-8fb8-f4abbfed8279", "slug": "leonard-gave-me-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/my-friend-leonard/leonard-gave-me-the", "text": "[Leonard] gave me the best advice that I was given while I was at the center, which was to hold on. No matter how bad or difficult life becomes, if you hold on, hold on to whatever it is you need to hold on to, be it religion, friends, a support group, a set of steps or your own heart, if you hold on, just hold on, life will get better.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Frey", "slug": "james-frey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey" }, "book": { "title": "My Friend Leonard", "slug": "my-friend-leonard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/my-friend-leonard" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 9, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Frey#My_friend_Leonard_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:43" }, { "id": "139abdbd-22b4-445b-9a3f-ffdf5cc43dc8", "slug": "he-would-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/he-would-have", "text": "\"He would have made a good soldier.\"\n\nI raised my eyebrows in greater surprise. Modena wasn't just meek, it seemed to me then, he was a weak man. I couldn't imagine what Abdullah meant. I didn't know then that good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gregory David Roberts", "slug": "gregory-david-roberts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts" }, "book": { "title": "Shantaram", "slug": "shantaram", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "soldiers", "slug": "soldiers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soldiers" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shantaram#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:21" }, { "id": "f61945c5-1892-44c2-9e4d-b9eebdc085aa", "slug": "it-wasnt-going", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book/it-wasnt-going", "text": "It wasn’t going to be hard—it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I’d done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jasper Fforde", "slug": "jasper-fforde", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde" }, "book": { "title": "Lost in a Good Book", "slug": "lost-in-a-good-book", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 124, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#Lost_in_a_Good_Book_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:59" }, { "id": "ba661d84-143f-46d8-9bef-56a17b159497", "slug": "my-meaning-simply", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/my-meaning-simply", "text": "My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "David Copperfield", "slug": "david-copperfield", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Copperfield#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "3892df39-fc80-4285-810c-d9fd42d74b5d", "slug": "ride-on-rough-shod", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/ride-on-rough-shod", "text": "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "David Copperfield", "slug": "david-copperfield", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Copperfield#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "923782fe-162f-49c7-aab1-90bb9ecfc6ce", "slug": "yakov-shepsovitch-what", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud/the-fixer/yakov-shepsovitch-what", "text": "Yakov Shepsovitch, what more can I tell you? Take heart in the truth and endure your trials. Sustain yourself in your innocence. (Bibikov)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Bernard Malamud", "slug": "bernard-malamud", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud" }, "book": { "title": "The Fixer", "slug": "the-fixer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud/the-fixer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "innocence", "slug": "innocence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fixer#Part_Five", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:35" }, { "id": "cea8d917-f557-45c8-a74d-1e3aa64f961a", "slug": "actually-the-situation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-fabulous-riverboat/actually-the-situation", "text": "Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip José Farmer", "slug": "philip-jose-farmer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer" }, "book": { "title": "The Fabulous Riverboat", "slug": "the-fabulous-riverboat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-fabulous-riverboat" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 225, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#The_Fabulous_Riverboat_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:30" }, { "id": "50faab02-00ee-402d-87ab-8ceef0c1480c", "slug": "water-never-waits", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha/water-never-waits", "text": "Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Golden", "slug": "arthur-golden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden" }, "book": { "title": "Memoirs of a Geisha", "slug": "memoirs-of-a-geisha", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha_(novel)#Mameha", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:55" }, { "id": "7ad71a0a-626e-4960-9568-635164be7d5e", "slug": "but-but-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/but-but-you", "text": "\"But... but... you can't fight the way things are...\" \"But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are.\" \"You can never win-\" \"We don't have to win. We only have to fight.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Matthew Stover", "slug": "matthew-stover", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover" }, "book": { "title": "Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends", "slug": "shatterpoint-star-wars-legends", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 313, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Shatterpoint_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:45" }, { "id": "80ed5467-8284-4192-886e-c521a878305c", "slug": "just-as-pluck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson/just-as-pluck", "text": "Just as \"pluck\" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Beerbohm", "slug": "max-beerbohm", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm" }, "book": { "title": "Zuleika Dobson", "slug": "zuleika-dobson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Beerbohm#Zuleika_Dobson_(1911)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:40" }, { "id": "2fc69d7f-e704-477c-9fd7-c6d34d643345", "slug": "he-who-would", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-bunyan/the-pilgrims-progress/he-who-would", "text": "He who would valiant be,\n\nLet him come hither;\n\nOne here will constant be,\n\nCome wind, come weather\n\nThere’s no discouragement\n\nShall make him once relent\n\nHis first avow’d intent\n\nTo be a pilgrim.Whoso beset him round\n\nWith dismal stories,\n\nDo but themselves confound;\n\nHis strength the more is.\n\nNo lion can him fright,\n\nHe’ll with a giant fight,\n\nBut he will have a right\n\nTo be a pilgrim.Hobgoblin nor foul fiend\n\nCan daunt his spirit;\n\nHe knows he at the end\n\nShall life inherit.\n\nThen, fancies, fly away,\n\nHe’ll not fear what men say;\n\nHe’ll labour night and day\n\nTo be a pilgrim.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Bunyan", "slug": "john-bunyan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-bunyan" }, "book": { "title": "The Pilgrim's Progress", "slug": "the-pilgrims-progress", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-bunyan/the-pilgrims-progress" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Bunyan#Part_II", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:05" }, { "id": "c4812ed1-b9dd-480f-a75d-4b2ae2fc7a11", "slug": "after-you-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki/zen-mind-beginners-mind/after-you-have", "text": "After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, \"Oh, this pace is terrible!\" But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. So there is no need to worry about progress.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Shunryu Suzuki", "slug": "shunryu-suzuki", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki" }, "book": { "title": "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", "slug": "zen-mind-beginners-mind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki/zen-mind-beginners-mind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "patience", "slug": "patience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shunryu_Suzuki#Right_Practice", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:45" }, { "id": "ca5c9771-0627-41e5-88c3-08b306085c59", "slug": "the-human-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen/as-a-man-thinketh/the-human-will", "text": "The human will, that force unseen,\n\nThe offspring of a deathless soul,\n\nCan hew the way to any goal,\n\nThough walls of granite intervene.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Allen", "slug": "james-allen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen" }, "book": { "title": "As a Man Thinketh", "slug": "as-a-man-thinketh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen/as-a-man-thinketh" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "free will", "slug": "free-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/free-will" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Allen#Effect_of_Thought_on_Circumstances", 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Besides, I can always turn back, because I know the road, but one more step won’t make much difference.’ Until one day, without warning, the road stops testing the traveller and begins to treat him generously. 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Meanwhile, you’ll still be here waiting for me.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Paulo Coelho", "slug": "paulo-coelho", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho" }, "book": { "title": "Manuscript Found in Accra", "slug": "manuscript-found-in-accra", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho#Manuscript_Found_in_Accra_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:34" }, { "id": "28f5f0e4-d988-4b5f-accc-f88733c0e693", "slug": "others-even-though", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/others-even-though", "text": "Others, even though they were defeated and feel humiliated by the things the winners are saying about them, will allow themselves to shed a few tears but will never succumb to self-pity. 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That is--he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with success. p. 73", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Napoleon Hill", "slug": "napoleon-hill", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill" }, "book": { "title": "Think And Grow Rich", "slug": "think-and-grow-rich", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "success and failure", "slug": "success-and-failure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill#Think_and_Grow_Rich_(1938)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:18" }, { "id": "0dc67355-9233-4e62-8cc0-18abc812df01", "slug": "most-of-us-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich/most-of-us-are", "text": "Most of us are good \"starters\" but poor \"finishers\" of everything we begin. 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I've gone too far to turn back. 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We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.\n\nTo love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "slug": "rainer-maria-rilke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke" }, "book": { "title": "Letters to a Young Poet", "slug": "letters-to-a-young-poet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke#Letters_to_a_Young_Poet_(1934)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:55" }, { "id": "2a345929-1b0a-42ea-a8d2-5a974793dcb1", "slug": "if-only-we-arrange", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/if-only-we-arrange", "text": "If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "slug": "rainer-maria-rilke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke" }, "book": { "title": "Letters to a Young Poet", "slug": "letters-to-a-young-poet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke#Letters_to_a_Young_Poet_(1934)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:55" }, { "id": "e1e05088-721e-49f6-bd5d-05eae451acb1", "slug": "there-is-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/there-is-nothing", "text": "There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "slug": "arthur-conan-doyle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle" }, "book": { "title": "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "slug": "the-hound-of-the-baskervilles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 696, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "problems", "slug": "problems", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/problems" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:42" }, { "id": "59c19874-5291-42ae-9023-eb3843d34d2f", "slug": "endurance-belief-patience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/endurance-belief-patience", "text": "Endurance. Belief. Patience. Hope. These are the key words of our existence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "patience", "slug": "patience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_The_Machine_Crusade_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:50" }, { "id": "917c646a-f35a-4654-9b3d-1ca0011f15bd", "slug": "perseverance-does-instead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/perseverance-does-instead", "text": "Perseverance does instead of talent up to a certain point; he got so far, but no further. This honest lad's perseverance and ambition are praiseworthy; he will always be respected for his industry and steadfastness of purpose, but his paintings will always be third-rate. Who would not have been deceived by his zeal and taken it for real talent! There is all the difference in the world between a liking and an aptitude. To make sure of real genius or real taste in a child calls for more accurate observations than is generally suspected, for the child displays his wishes not his capacity, and we judge by the former instead of considering the latter.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" }, { "name": "talent", "slug": "talent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/talent" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_III", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:33" }, { "id": "65ac83f3-c659-4000-907d-b655cf01ad24", "slug": "you-will-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/you-will-have", "text": "You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Orwell", "slug": "george-orwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell" }, "book": { "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "the future", "slug": "the-future", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_8", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14" }, { "id": "d97f2e98-a159-4484-9b37-889fe4080d91", "slug": "but-man-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-old-man-and-the-sea/but-man-is-not", "text": "'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 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Pater ipse colendi haud facilem esse viam voluit.'' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. 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