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Quotes About Persistence

There was nothing more satisfying than taking all the jumbled pieces and putting them together one by one to recreate the picture—the story—of the crime in question.
~ Debra Webb
Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory
~ Debra Webb
Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.
~ Dee Williams
You are a long trail through the woods," she said. "And in the woods people prefer a shortcut." Our
~ Delia Ephron
c'est la magie de la constance, la plus difficile et la plus rare de nos vertus.
~ Denis Diderot
Supposedly she'd died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn't kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn't even been born.
~ Denis Johnson
There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.
~ Denis Waitley
Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley
The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
~ Dennis Lehane
He looked back at the page, got one last glimpse before the match blew itself out. Going to find you today, Andrew. If I don't owe Dolores my life, I owe her that much, at least. Going to find you. Going to kill you dead.
~ Dennis Lehane
Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.
~ Dennis Lehane
It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitting through all the boring stuff had been worth it.
~ Dennis Lehane
As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.
~ Dennis Lehane
They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
~ Dennis Lehane
È un'isola, capo. Ci troveranno sempre.
~ Dennis Lehane
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.
~ Dennis Prager
As the Psalmist put it millennia ago, 'Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.' Many people, however, believe that they can both sow and reap without tears.
~ Dennis Prager
It seems a thousand years since I've seen you but I've been dreaming of you ever since. Now I've found you again I absolutely refuse to let you go.
~ Unknown
Time is our enemy, but whatever happens I will love her and stay by her side until he last beat of her heart.
~ Unknown
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!
~ Denzel Washington
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
~ Denzel Washington
One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.
~ Derek Prince
In Psalm 37:5, David said, "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it." More literally, the verse says, "And He is doing it." Two things are here required of us. The first is an act: "commit." The second is an attitude: "trust." The act of commitment leads to the attitude of trust. David assured us that, as long as we continue in this attitude of trust, God "is doing it.
~ Derek Prince
Every word I have written took the wrong approach. I
~ Derek Walcott