Quotes About Persistence

That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella.

And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage. 'What's up?' he asked. 'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just...' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.' 'I don't think you can.' he said

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.' Pursuit

My brother Francis wrote a letter in Greek to the headmasters of private schools, selling cooking stoves. When some wrote back that they could not read Greek, he sent them another letter – in Latin. This produced orders.

Moldenke would remain.

You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.

faith is not content with asking once or twice, but will go on asking, seeking and knocking until the prayer is answered ( Luke 11:9-13).

You've had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.

I wanted to sleep for a thousand years, to wake up when them and their like were gone, when I didn't have their dirty black ink on my fingers, in my blood.

Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.

lab. Develops

The scenery changes but the pain remains.

And here's the thing about outbreaks: They end. In some cases they end after many years, in other cases they end rather soon.

disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

My instincts tell me that if people are going to such great lengths to stop me, I should go to even greater lengths to persevere. I would describe that as admirable, yet strangely most people consider it annoying and obnoxious.

respond that we unfortunately seem to be running

I am familiar with the phrase, 'needle in a haystack' and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

And yet every time I think I can't take any more, I do.