Quotes About Persistence

its key components are action and practice, which in turn prompt success, which refuels motivation. Figure

You will never assassinate my ghosts.

This search is all about faith. Faith that what's clearly impossible might somehow turn out not to be. Faith that we can do what we never would have thought we could. Faith to keep going when everything tells us we should turn back.

Commitment is a journey that works best when each step taken is carefully measured.

while there was life there was hope.

Life went on, no matter the magnitude of the events that influenced it.

His world was a confusing and treacherously shifting ground, and he did not see that he had any better way to deal with it than simply to keep marching on. It

Something deep within hinted with dread persistence that he would never go back to what had been

Believe for long enough and it will come to pass. Believe it might be so, and it will be so.

There were times, she knew from experience, when it was best just to continue on rather than to shift directions, even when it didn't seem as if you were getting anywhere. Your chances of success weren't always something you could measure accurately. Perseverance in the face of failure counted for something.

We shouldn't have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don't. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time

It never ends, really, does it? You overcome one obstacle, one evil, one enemy, and another steps into the unoccupied space. We persevere, but it isn't ever really over for us. Not even for those who don't want any part of it.

We shouldn't have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don't. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time out because now and then we get exactly what we want.

There are always obstacles to the things we want most, Drisker Arc, but we don't need to dwell on them. We need to make them disappear!

You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.

Sometimes, that's all life is: one desperate act after another.

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

what is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

Nothing is ever easy.

No. As Zedd is fond of saying, nothing is ever easy. How can we justify going after one little girl, to solve the riddle of her loaf of bread, while Rahl goes after the box?

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.