Quotes About Persistence

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Sometimes I just get tired of bowin' down and givin' up, you know?" It

And it seemed so easy! Sure, she fell on her face a few times, but once she

You know how athletes get ready for the Olympics? They swim early in the morning and late at night. They run around the track for hours and hours without a crowd to cheer them on.

So I did. I strained. I reached. I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs. V cracked up.

Except for the lima beans.

Sometimes I don't see exactly how to go on doing this.

I guess that's how people go on, without knowing how.

I tell him I will try to fall out of love with him, but I feel I will love him all my life.

What if someone had told me, thirty years ago: If you give up, now, wanting to be an artist, he might love you all your life—what would I have said? I didn't even have an art, it would could from out of our family's life— what could I have said: nothing will stop me.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

If you did leave,' he said. 'If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too.

And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.

Oh, sometimes I continue to step on my tongue or go where I shouldn't, but all in all, there is so much work to be done.

All things foamed and fogged and our minds slept where they stood. There was always more shovelling to do.

Pro surfer. Sometimes you only need to hear someone say it out loud. Sometimes you only need to say it to yourself to make a dream come true.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Resistance builds strength

Whenever a ball of tape or an empty water bottle didn't land in the waste basket, Crosby would throw it again and again until he sunk it. He never gave up until he succeeded, even when it came to tossing out the garbage.

I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

Some things a heart won't listen to, I'm still holding out for you

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.