Quotes About Persistence

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Practice is called practice because it is not meant to be perfect.

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.

Over time, Jack came to realize that if he approached a problem correctly, worked at it long enough, and refused to let initial failures get him down, he could find a solution. One

Only through time time is conquered

Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question...

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! - The Rum Tum Tugger

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air

This last year, I have been in flight But always in ignorance of invisible pursuers. Now I know that all my life has been a flight

You took your shot. It didn't work out. Now you get to do laundry. That's what life is shaped like.

The solitary mind probes at an ugly thought as a wound, constantly seeing if the pain is less, and in doing so keeps it alive beyond is time.

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," comes from ancient Persia.

Faithful: When will you learn to leave well enough alone? Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.