Quotes About Persistence

I'm not going away, Amy. You do know that, don't you?" … "I don't need a protector, Liam." "I see things differently." My spine locks into a steel bar. "I'm not your ---" "Not yet. But I want you to be.

It means, "the melody changes, but the song remains the same," but directly translated it's: "the players change, but the music is always the same.

Memories are the enemies that never die...

They do that, you know. Miracles do. Even in the rainiest of seasons, they break through with their sparks of light and life. You just have to make up your mind not to concentrate on the rain.

Hemicrania continua is a type of daily headache characterized by persistent pain on one side of the head punctuated by episodes of sharp pain. The painful flare-ups are often accompanied by other symptoms, including watery eyes, runny nose, eyelid swelling, or constriction of the pupils. Remarkably, most patients with this type of headache get better when treated with an inexpensive medication that has been around for years: indomethacin.

And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

A good heart can't ever let the bad get in, Mama's voice whispers in my head. You got a good heart, Hannie. Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.

That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn't see anything but mountains ahead, that where there's a mountain, there's always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.

The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

Sooner or later, if you want to do what's never been done, you have to find the courage to take the first step. Just like J. Norm said, Only impossible journeys achieve the impossible.

No way out but through the storm now.

Few things are more life affirming than watching an idea that was fledgling and frail in its infancy, seemingly destined for birth and death in almost the same breath, stretch its lungs and curl its fingers around the threads of life, and hang on with a determination that can't be understood, only felt.

We knock on the door and wait

Get in the habit of following through. Keep the promises you make to yourself.

If you are going through hell, keep going. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The bravest are those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." Thucydides again.

Things are looking better already. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.

Crossword puzzles are designed to be solved, while codes and ciphers are designed to prevent solution. With codes, you have to be prepared to work for months—for years—and fail.

Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.