Quotes About Persistence

Every day. Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.

It's very much like you're trying to reach Infinity. You know it's there, but you just don't know where--but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

We now know that in life no obstacle can block, it can only impede; that tiredness is an incident not a finality.

Something within fishermen tries to make fishing into a world perfect and apart—I don't know what it is or where, because sometimes it is in my arms and sometimes in my throat and sometimes nowhere in particular except somewhere deep. Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt)

take solace in the fact that you can quit at any time. I cannot.]

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into every day of your future.

How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.

The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?