Keep Your Spirits Up, and Spare No Effort - Chinese Proverb

The one who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Chinese Proverb

Chinese Proverb

This proverb highlights the importance of patience and persistence. It suggests that even the most daunting tasks can be accomplished through steady and continuous effort.

Do not be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. — Chinese Proverb

Chinese Proverb

This proverb emphasizes the importance of continuous progress, no matter how slow it might be. The key is to keep moving forward rather than becoming stagnant.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking. — Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thích Nhất Hạnh’s words begin with a simple but profound premise: progress depends first on direction, not speed. If a person is turned toward compassion, clarity, healing, or truth, then each modest step becomes meaning...

Do the best one can. Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly, those retouches. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

Yourcenar’s words begin with a simple demand: do the best one can. Yet she immediately refuses to let effort become an excuse for stopping.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha. — Robert Brault

Robert Brault

Robert Brault’s line begins with a witty redefinition: an optimist is not someone who denies backward motion, but someone who interprets it differently. Instead of treating a setback as proof of failure, the optimist see...

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert’s line immediately shifts the argument from artistic purity to artistic existence. A “good-enough” novel, even one “violently written,” has entered the world and can move, provoke, or comfort someone; b...