Quotes About Persistence

We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one day at a time. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill, first one piece, then another.

Many a man would have been a success had ne connected his fragmentary efforts. Spasmodic, disconnected attempts, without concentration, uncontrolled by any fixed idea, will never bring success. It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond .

He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

People get used to anything, if it just goes on.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

Focus too closely on the goal you haven't accomplished, and you'll fail to notice the victories you achieve along the way.

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.

So why don't you go home? Dink smiled crookedly. Because I can't give up the game. He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. Because I love this.

I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet.

Orson Scott Card

There is only try and try again, until you can persuade the world to work according to your new plan for it. ... Everything has a mind of its own and follows the laws it already understands.

You consider everything impossible unless you want it, and then it already belongs to you, in which case anyone who stands in your way is a thief.

And all I managed, barely, was endurance.