Quotes About Persistence

Just watch Snow White. Just visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Florida—he was laying the plans for the Florida park while he was on his death bed. People kept telling him his dreams were impossible. Walt knew better. He had wished upon a star.

Trying is always enough.

Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.

Feeling scared yet? Want to go somewhere safe?" "It won't help, will it? We'd just run into Godzilla or the Vampire from Hell. Trouble just follows you around." "Hey, Trouble. Let's find out what your mysterious Indian wanted us to know.

Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

That which doesn't destroy us . . ." "Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, 'What's next?

Running from vampires, again. Still. Go me!

If Buffalo Singer ever came to her in a dream again, she would make sure he regretted it.

When he was home, he acted as if he'd never kissed me, never told me that he was still interested. I didn't know if that was reassuring or frightening. Samuel was a very patient hunter.

Unlike human fights -- or even werewolf fights -- vampire fights could take a long time. Not breathing, not needing a beating heart meant that a vampire was dangerous long after a werewolf would be unconscious. It takes a great deal of damage to make a vampire lose consciousness.

In fact, "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually do something with one's talent, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistence to stick with it until it's finished.

No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of the time he didn't say much. But when he was curious about something, he was stubborner than a bear after a honeycomb.

Haven't you learned by now that it's always one thing after another? Being busy is no excuse. Everyone's busy.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

It seems I am fated always to be wading through the shite, thought Becket a few hours later, coughing and trying not to breathe through his nose. Before him stretched a foul plain down to the Thames mudflats, lined with long dykes. The nearest steamed gently before him: a dunghill of magnificent, epic size. Stench of piss and shit many weeks old was making the air blue above them and the number of different mephitic and disease-laden odours hardly bore thinking about.

More problems solve themselves if only you can content yourself in patience and wait.

I just let it be hard while it is hard without going crazy fo it to get easy.

This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.

Wenn ich jetzt falle, stehe ich nie wieder auf. Also gehe ich weiter.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

No, señor. The deeper you push the iron into them, the harder they fight you.

Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.