Quotes About Persistence

Život je neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrtso- kao na Drini ?uprija.

Ono od ?ega bih hteo da pobegnem ide sa mnom, pre mene stiže u mesto koje je cilj mog puta, i do?ekuje me na stanici, vodi u hotel i prati po gradu.

Samo plivati! Isplivati iz hladne vode i okrenuti le?a svemu, i maštanjima o onom što je bilo, i ?ega nema, i što bi trebalo biti, i ovoj obali i ovom životu. Plivati i isplivati.

Nije dovoljno jednoj stvari le?a okrenuti pa da prestane da nas goni i mu?i.

Svi su oni u suštini jedno i podjednako vredni naše pažnje, jer pokazuju mesto na kome je ?ovek naišao na zapreku i nije zastao pred njom, nego je savladao i premostio kako je mogao, prema svom shvatanju, ukusu i prilikama kojima je bio okružen.

sje?anja, kad se jednom krene, ne zadržavaju se kod po?etka

Everything is breaking stones, up to a point.

HAD I NOT SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SO MISERABLE, I WOULD HAVE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO APPRECIATE DOING WHAT BRINGS ME JOY.  

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.

you pray for something and you do not see the answer, consider the following: (1) Is what you want good for you? (2) Will you or anyone else be hurt by your having it? (3) Are you ready for the responsibility of having it? If you can answer these questions affirmatively, and the answer to your prayer has not manifested, the issue is probably patience.

And you kept fighting even after you were knocked down. Goddamn it, you dragged your ass off the ground and you kept fighting. — John Matthew, LOVER MINE

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

I mean I'm just bad at being good. Bad despite more than sixty years of attending Sunday school, worship services, summer camps, revivals, prayer meetings, retreats, workshops, religious colleges, seminary; being a pastor; reading spiritual books, writing spiritual books, and memorizing Bible verses. I stumble a lot!

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it's OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

Being kind, making hard decisions, helping those in need, standing up for what's right, pointing toward hope and truth, and embracing the power of persistence . . . those were the qualities of Superman that mattered to me far more than his ability to see through walls. Because all of us can do those other things, can be those things; we can be Superman whenever we choose.

Art is progressive; the more you do it, the better you get. I defy anyone to write fifteen short stories and not have story #15 be at least marginally better than story #1. It's simply not possible. Setting a date-certain for surrender often results in giving up just as you're starting to get good at your craft.

Never let them stop you from telling the story you want to tell.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

I couldn't fall out of love with you if I fell all the way to hell.

Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy. Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore." Peabody was silent for several moments. "Somewhere in there is a lot of good sense.

He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king.

Okay." Mavis nodded decisively. "Then you tear it down. You don't take no for an answer. You nag and you pick and you stick until it pops out of him. Whatever it is. Girls are good at this, Dallas." "I'm not good at being a girl." "Sure you are. You're your own kind of girl. Think of it as kicking his ass until he cracks.

Bad guys, in their various forms, on their various levels, didn't take time off.

Put the past behind you - that's what people always said. But those people didn't get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.