Quotes About Persistence

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

It's hopeless. I know that, but I never really get it. I go right on. I think to myself: I was wrong about the last one, but I'll try harder to be right about the next one.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Bright light. You've always found your way.

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

i get what i want cause i can be a stubborn bitch when i need to

Falling in love, that's the roller coaster, the ups and downs, the thrills. Being in love, that's the carousel—around and around with music playing. But staying in love… She sighed, remembering. That's the maze, Anna. There are all the twists and turns and dead ends. You have to keep going, keep trusting.

not enough might be worse than not at all

Even now, the Lincoln was less than a half block behind. "Dammit. They just won't shake lose." "Oh yeah?" Whitney set her teeth and gave the mirror a quick check. She'd never been a gracious loser. "Watch this." Before Doug could draw a breath, she whipped the Mercedes around in a tight U-turn and headed dead-on for the Lincoln. He watched with a kind of fascinated dread. "Oh my God.

Rule number one was confidence. Rule number two was tenacity.

O amor, qualquer que seja o tempo, quaisquer que sejam os obstáculos, dura sempre.

I'm wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?" "If I've wanted it, why don't I have it?" "Because you haven't made any real effort to get it as yet." "And why haven't I?" He arched his sandy brows. "Am I slow or just stupid?" Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn't know he'd just insulted his firstborn.

Do you think you can have everything you want just by yelling louder, just by being stronger?