Quotes About Persistence

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible

His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again

How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

He just thinks that he wants to marry me. Brett is the kind of guy that likes a challenge, I'm a challenge. As long as I stay a challenge, he'll keep asking. And when I know he's really ready, that's when I'll say yes.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day...

So . . . do you?" He persisted. "Yes," she said finally with a mystified laugh. "I wrap my head in a towel." He nodded, satisfied. "I thought so." "Did you ever think about cutting back on the caffeine?" Miles shook his head. "Never.

The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

You get the title, you defend it. That's the motto.

Just get on with it.' That's a life motto.

The motto to work hard and get back that India jersey never died in me.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.

Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.

I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.

When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.

You get to the top of one mountain and then you see another.