Quotes About Persistence

pace the corridor back and forth until I wear the edge off my nerves or just collapse unconscious from exhaustion

Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood. I

What're you—Jane Hawk?

To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

indomitability.

Lem felt sick, not merely because of what had happened to Wes Dalberg but because of all the deaths yet to come. He was proud of both his management and investigatory skills, and he knew he could handle this case better than anyone else. But he was also a hardheaded pragmatist, incapable of underestimating the enemy or of pretending there would be a quick ending to this nightmare. He would need time and patience and luck to track down the killer, and meanwhile more bodies would pile up.

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

One of Dorian Purcell's rules for living a good life was that no matter what you were doing, whether it was building a giant tech company or banging your mistress, breaking a competitor and driving him into ruin or playing pinball, you had to commit to it as if it was everything, as if your very survival depended on it.

Ultimately, failure can be the father of success if one learns from the errors made.

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

Don't be a quitter. Try harder. Don't be so picky. Be willing to start at the bottom. Prove yourself.

Take charge of your life. Don't be afraid to pursue your dreams. Work hard and don't listen to anyone who says you can't, because you can and you will.

With God's help she could forge a path where there hadn't been one before. With God's help she would make a way where there was none.

Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.

Remember, good things come to those who wait.

Jason had tried to reach their father through the construction company that employed him, but he'd learned nothing concrete.

the best instructional programs help students master a subject by encouraging attentiveness, demanding hard work, and reinforcing learned skills through repetition.

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.