Quotes About Persistence

concentrate to do so

although he'd had hopes. And stalker tendencies. For the past week, he'd hung around the mansion for however many nights in a row, hoping to see her in the midst of one of her visits to service the Brotherhood. Because, hey, nothing says, "I wanna date ya," like grounds for a restraining order.

eaning down, it became amply clear that Rhamp had deployed the hot bomb. And Qhuinn had to admit, as he undid the buckle and got the kid back out, that he kind of respected the effort, man to man. Yeah, no pussy loads for his son. The boy dropped that shit like he owned it. Um … literally. Yeah.

The goat-fuck odds didn't slow Z down.

The guy took off, which meant short of braining him with the glass, there was no other way of expressing his I-am-an-island opinion. Although really, that would just be a waste of good booze--Qhuinn was so hardheaded, you could have hit his frontal lobe with a crowbar and made no impression on him whatsoever.

Luck is like a cat." Susan wagged her forefinger at him, as if she were correcting a child who should know better. "The more you go after it, the more it eludes you. You can chase what doesn't want you, but you only catch what chooses to be in your palm.

We find ways of repeating things until we get them right. But that can be dangerous. Especially if we're trying to fix things we never should have owned in the first place.

His life, such that he was aware of it, was about enduring.

Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down. And as she kept going

This is about your survival. Survival means you continue no matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice. So stop wasting breath, get back on your feet, and move.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

Try not to come back. Oh, I'll be back, but it'll be to ask you out. Give it up, jock. It's not going to happen. We'll see.

You can't keep running away from me. From us.

Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.

Make the calls. Maybe they won't talk to you, but I guarantee that if you don't call, they won't talk to you.

You just stay focused on what you have to do. Exactly.

If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

Either go at it full force or don't go at it at all. Don't dabble.

What can a losing trader do to transform himself into a winning trader? A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.