Quotes About Persistence

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?

As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Life was about momentum . Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.

Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn't the speed that mattered. It was the direction they were going.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.

Brandon Sanderson

The trick is to never stop looking. There's always another secret.

Better to exist in agony than to vanish entirely.

Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress," he said. "Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing.

Radiant," he said. "How? How do you still fight?" "The same way you do," Kaladin said. "One day at a time, always taking the next step.

Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

Do try to focus." "Well, I do try. I simply fail.

Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.

Run. Flee. I'll chase you. I will never stop. I am eternal. I am the storm.

That was one nice thing about books and notes. They could always wait for another time.

So if Cobb wanted me to turn, I'd turn. I'd turn until my fingers bled—until I rubbed the flesh from my hands and withered away to a skeleton. A skeleton who could turn really, really well.

It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.

You fix it, and you fly. You find a way, and you defy them. For those of us who don't have the courage.

For me, if I have writer's block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and I need to go back and fix what is not right. And once I do that I can write onward. Sometimes writer's block is just I'm in a funk that day and my writing just isn't working. In that case I write anyway and then throw it away. You can always write. Writer's block is 'I can't write because what I'm writing is crap.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.