Quotes About Persistence

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

I just plan on playing my best and continuing to put myself in a great position to win. I hope to win a 2nd bracelet and hopefully a WPT title.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Hope is man's inner effort.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.