Quotes About Persistence

twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning — that was

I go out to the cliffs with binoculars to see whales find their way in from the southern mist and I walk here in this paddock, stubbornly, wondering at the heat each of us leaves in our wake.

In the end he wore me down. Always asking. And the answer I give him is still the only one I have. What do I want? Peace. And it actually shut him up. He didn't niggle me about it. It was like he got it straight off. I don't just want quiet, neither. I want peace.

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on. But

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on.

Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

The odds are never impossible," Thrawn said calmly. "Merely unfavorable.

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all.

Yes, they'd lost. But it was just a battle, not the war.

Sometimes, it's hard to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel when you're knee deep in quicksand.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Abandon your fear, move forward and never stop. Retreat and you will age. Hesitate and you will die.

Everything in this world exists to wear you down.

What of this despair? I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!

Even without a form we will never stop walking.

Everything in this word exists to wear you down.

If you can say that your heart doesn't change then that is strenght.

we will not stop walking though the path may eventually fork. it turns without stopping. and we never stop either. but when the time comes, when we learn fear and look back …would we call that fate? and we begin to walk the same path. yes. that is why we won't stop walking though the road may eventually fork. we won't stop walking… even though the road may eventually end.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and then resistant and finally hopeless as you realize that you've snagged the bottom, that you have the whole planet on the other end of your line.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

We cannot fail to win—unless we fail to try.