Quotes About Persistence

I ran faster than a demon from Hell breaking out with Cerberus snapping at its heels.

I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.

The world can wait. I can't.

There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again!

There are a few things a hunting man can't do without. His bloodhound is one of them.

What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Love, Caroline decided as she looked at him, was a strange thing. Like a persistent weed in a sea of pavement, it could survive in the nooks and crannies of the heart, and just when you thought it had been completely ripped out by the roots, it would shoot right back up.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you.

He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

You had to really cultivate an ending. To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Wait, that's your idea? That's your expert advice? You're going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You're going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.

At some point you are going to want to give up. Consider this a reminder: Don't you dare.

For best results, apply regularly.

Refuse to live a settle for it life.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

Hold the Vision, Trust the Process and Don't worry about the outcome.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

when you lose your sails, row.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere.