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Quotes About Persistence

Kung sakaling malupit sa iyo ang kapalaran, alalahanin mo ako, dahil hindi mapapagod sa paghihintay itong walang sawang tumitingin sa iyo.
~ Unknown
Santa Paciencia Nati, la que hay que tener cuando se te vienen estas ideas.
~ Unknown
Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...
~ Luis Valdez
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
~ Luke Davies
Obsession is not immediate. It stalks you. It creeps up on you until it's too late to escape it.
~ Unknown
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
~ Unknown
Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.
~ Unknown
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
~ Unknown
This dull, difficult novel I have brought with me on my trip—I keep trying to read it. I have gone back to it so many times, each time dreading it and each time finding it no better than the last time, that by now it has become something of an old friend. My old friend the bad novel.
~ Lydia Davis
For one thing, it is hard for me to let a sentence stand if I see something wrong with it. Even when I'm writing a grocery list it is hard for me not to correct a misspelling.
~ Lydia Davis
Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.
~ Lydia Davis
E besouro que cai de costas não se levanta nunca mais.
~ Unknown
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.
~ Unknown
Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.
~ Unknown
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
~ Lynda Barry
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
~ Lynda Barry
Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up
~ Lynda Field
about the rest of the
~ Lynda La Plante
So I keep bringing these — / Just as Night keeps fetching stars
~ Lyndall Gordon
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
~ Lynn Abbey
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
~ Lynn Abbey
While I don't have to leave home to find God's oasis, I do have to search for it, pursuing God in prayer and trusting Him to take care of me when all other hope is gone. He promised that "If...you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29).
~ Lynn Austin