Quotes About Persistence

Perder no es tan malo como dejar de luchar

People try to bail out without a fight, and too often people take the easy way out. Doesn't anybody have backbone anymore?" -- Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.

El que fuera a ser difícil no lo hacía menos necesario.

No siempre llega antes quien más corre.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

The cameras and the studio may not be following me, but my past definitely is.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

Troubles. They stick to skin like glue, like gum to the sole of a shoe. They slide into the crevices of your heart, slither into your veins, and tug at you from the inside until they become something dark and heavy and not so easy to shake. The

Because love doesn't stop just because you run. Love keeps reaching out. Keeps believing, even when it feels impossible.

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal.

Wyatt Marshall hadn't come all the way to Russia only to fail.

She knew right then...she too knew real love. that kid of love that forgave again and kept showing up, loving her when she didn't have the courage to love back. Love pursued. Love forgave. Love believed. Love sacrificed.~ Jess (pg 287)

You show up. You wait. You give. You sacrifice. You love anyway.

tired people don't give up. Tired people just take a rest. Rest a bit and try again.

And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.

We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.