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Quotes About Persistence

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
~ Patrick Ness
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
~ Patrick Ness
If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?
~ Patrick Ness
A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
~ Patrick Ness
Do you believe there's hope at the end?" "No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?
~ Patrick Ness
Through Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both.
~ Patrick Ness
I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging
~ Patrick Ness
No, life didn't always go how you thought it might. Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all. You've just got to find a way to live there anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
~ Patrick Ness
I will never let go of this knife, no matter what she says, no matter how she says it. She
~ Patrick Ness
All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
~ Patrick Ness
I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.
~ Patrick Ness
I think everybody falls, I think we all do. And I don´t think that's the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
~ Patrick Ness
A story never ends at the end. There is always after.
~ Patrick Ness
There is a brightness on her face and she keeps urging me on with tilts of her head and smiles and I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
~ Patrick Ness
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Se não se consegue acabar um trabalho com vinte e sete balas e uma faca, então é porque se está no negócio errado.
~ Unknown
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Practice makes the master.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
~ Patrick Rothfuss