Quotes About Persistence

Fighting the low-level cloud cover that's blocking out what you're wanting to see break through into your life.

The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Convince a man to take a single step—after all, what earthly difference could one step make?—and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

Where hopes burn bright," he said, "patience is quickly consumed.

It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

It was a no-worms weekend," Todd told Danny over the phone after dinner on Sunday evening. "Way to go!" Danny replied enthusiastically. "Not a single worm," Todd told him, twisting the phone cord around his wrist.

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks." "Just most things.

What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him.

Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid

He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

Giving up is always easy. It's the peace that follows that sucks.

You come back to us or I swear, I'll find you, dig up your stinky corpse, and kick its ass until it freaking disintegrates.

Jess. Khalila drew his gaze back to her. What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

Reset the board and keep playing.

The trick to doing the impossible, I've found, is to simply never think past what is at your fingertips. Do the thing in front of you. Then the next. Then the next. In such ways have men built the pyramids, or climbed mountains, or raced to the moon on rockets.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

I'll rest when I'm dead.

On the other hand, those who are willing to wait for an extra season other two for full results (against an Japanese beetle) will turn to milky disease; they will be rewarded with lasting control that become more, rather than less effective with the passage of time.

Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me, that usually means many, many revisions.

I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Even

Here's the thing about love, Mrs. Basil E. replied. You get a last chance. And then, when that doesn't work, you make yourself another last chance. Then another. Then another. You keep going until your last chances run out.