Quotes About Persistence

Speaking of pits in plum pudding, do you remember your sister's first attempt? Your grandfather broke off his only remaining tooth trying to eat it." "And swallowed tooth, pit and all, so he wouldn't embarrass her in front of Gray Horse, who had come to court her.

Focus and move forward.

God, I've been like Don Quixote, fencing with windmills, searching for vengeance

I could eat a boot, I think, if it were well boiled, with perhaps a dash of salt for flavoring.

Finally I halted, my cloak soiled with grease and jam. Why was it that jam always coated me so?

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results.

I know what the word stress means but I don't know exactly how it feels. I don't think I have it. I just keep on keeping on, surrounded by the village idiots.

I just keep on keeping on, surrounded by the village idiots.

To me, bravery isn't a single act; it's facing impossible odds and getting up every day to repeat the whole ordeal.

Failure is built into that plan.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Fixin' onything is man's work," came Opal's firm answer. Tearin' down or killin', that thar's easy. Any addle-pated fool kin pull the trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It's fixin' that's hard, takes a heap more doin'.

Persevere, and, don't let any self-doubt distract you.

Just because you know where you want to end up doesnít mean you will not be faced with obstacles, or challenges along the way. Instant success rarely happens.

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

And here is the thing about experiences that wake you up, Raymond: You try to get back to sleep, but it's easier said than done. Once you're awake, you're awake. Good luck hitting the snooze button, my friend.

You have no choice but to live through whatever's happening. I mean . . . as opposed to what? If you're going to continue to live, then you're going to deal with it. You have no choice. You can say, 'I'm going to fall apart now.

You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give.

My brain was not right. I told it to perform, and it wouldn't listen. Then, suddenly, just as I gave up on remembering, it was there. Fully formed in my brain.

You think passion is enough. That it's all you really need. You think if something's just really, really important to you, it'll magically appear. Well, passion is all well and good. You won't get nowhere without it. But it's not the whole enchilada. You still gotta go step-by-step like everybody else.

This idea opened a door to my seeing that the rigors and trials of a task that big are not brick walls designed to keep me out. They're just pop quizzes to determine how badly I want in.

But it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

I think people are slow to believe in any kind of change." "That's 'cause nobody ever changes," she said. "Do you really believe that? Not ever?" "Well. Hardly ever. I guess you could be the exception to the rule." She still sounded as though she planned to wait and see, but it was marvelous progress all the same. It made my whole day.