Quotes About Persistence

The only sure way to fail forever is to give up.

Gotta slay a lion before you can slay a dragon

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you.

Yeah, that's the way.

The world could be a conniving harlot, as evil as a demon, but love would defeat her, every single time. Love never failed.

Ten tears fall, and I call. Nine hundred trees, but only one is for me. Eight times eight times eight they fly, whatever you do, don't stay dry. Seven ladies dancing, ignore their sweet romancing. Six seconds to hide, up, up, and you'll survive. Five times four times three, and that is where he'll be. Two I'll save, I'll be brave, brave, brave. The one I adore, I'll come back for.

Anyone can star a marathon. Only the strongest will finish it, even after they fall.

After dark, well, you stayed put.

Great. She was falling back into stubborn mode. But he didn't mind. She could say anything she wanted, do anything to him. He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper. "And

Dry your tears and march ahead. You can rest when you are dead.

What should I do? he demanded of his demon, abandoning thoughts about "all of you." They'd gotten him nowhere. As Strider would say, the backpack and scroll could suck it. At

Life might not go the way we think we want, might even lead us through dark nights and across stormy seas, but we can't give up. The only sure way to fail is to quit. We are Lights of the world. and we must keep fighting for what is good and right- we must keep fighting for love.

There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

When you come before the Lord, it is not necessary that you think upon the Lord. It is only necessary that you continue in your progress.

Trying to get a Phoenix build going is like playing Legend of Zelda, if it were written by a sadist, forcing her to adventure far and wide to find hidden keys scattered across the kingdom and given only measly clues from uncaring NPCs. But when you finally finish the level, you can't actually play the next level—you have to mail paper coupons to the manufacturer and wait weeks to get the activation codes.

When we asked for permission, we were told no, but we did it anyway, because we knew we needed it.

practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours.

Stop starting. Start finishing.

If we single-task on the most important project for two weeks and still aren't able to make a big dent, then I think we should all find new day jobs.

Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.

If you perfect your skills, you won't have to depend on breaks - someone will discover you. Breaks are tremendously overrated. Its not the breaks. The way to succeed in anything is to be good at it and to keep getting better.

Rejections are not obstacles to a career. They're simply things that don't work and can do us no harm. Fearing rejection can do harm. It stops you from continuing.