Quotes About Persistence

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from The Untouchables to you: At the end of your shift, go home alive. She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard--just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

She fixed her mind on stone in the soles of her feet and on the song of the mountains, and kept going

Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

Seeking Romulan Montargo here and there, Leopardo had continually not found him.

Relax! Once you open the door to the knock of opportunity, you will never relax again.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

It is human nature to strive.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.

Possess your soul in patience - you will see!

Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.

You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?

Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried.

Angus felt himself filled with an age-old male terror -as if somehow his body knew what his mind refused to consider- that she might be The One, that somehow, no matter how hard he fought, she'd be pestering him for all eternity. And worse, that if she ever took it upon herself to stop pestering him, he might have to track her down and chain her to his side until she started up again.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

The central riddle I've set out to solve concerns the self's continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably?

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said, "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." Lesson

Contemplate all that you are grateful for, and never give up on your dreams. Most importantly, give your whole heart to all that you love in this life.

Don't give up hope. You never know what brilliant accomplishments might be in your future.