Quotes About Persistence

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.

Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

Better live than dead.

It's always too soon to quit! Believe in the goodness of God practically speaking.

If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up house.

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.

It was a test. Would I come back stronger? Or would I give up and quit? I don't think this is a particularly enlightened educational philosophy, but, in my case at least, it always had the desired effect.

There were three things I had to do on my way to class.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat. It's the same for thinking, writing, and life.

W]hat makes a tragedy bearable and unbearable is the same thing—which is that life goes on.

True love, I said. And yet I'm sticking around unreasonably and knowing it's impossible because who knows? I want to find out. I live hopefully.

you still have to eat.

She said what makes a tragedy bearable and unbearable is the same thing- which is that life goes on.

work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

Everything will be all right in the end and if it's not all right then it's not the end.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't me you stop telling the story.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.