Quotes About Persistence

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.

if there is a garden of maybes, you are the invasive plant I can't ever get rid of.

Some stains never wash out.

If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Ein Schatz wird erst dadurch zu einem Schatz, dass du ihn so schwer findest, wenn du ihn am dringendsten brauchst.

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?

The loneliest creature on earth is a whale that has spent more than twenty years calling out for a mate, I read, but whose voice is so different from those of other whales that none of them ever respond.

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

Her mind is running in circles, like a gerbil on a wheel, the same way mine is. Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

Fake it until you make it, she said.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.

We worked and we ate and we celebrated birthdays and gossiped and read and wrote and prayed and we woke up each morning to do it all over again.

Magick isn't about getting rid of everything blocking your path.

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.