Quotes About Persistence

It's scary, but I won't let fear stop me.

I don't choose what I do based on how easy it is.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

Always. Stay always. Always.

forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word...

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

What should never be forgotten is this: Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

Her whole life is devouring her, slow second by slow second.

That night, after we turned out the light, the red digital numbers of the bedside clock stared me down. I tried to ignore it, but of all household objects, bedside clocks are the most insistent, more than beeping refrigerators and door alarms, more than kitchen timers and even blaring radios. It's the strong silent types that get you.

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.

We have longer ways to go," Annabelle would say in a pro-found Kerouac voice. "No matter," Kat would answer. "The road is life.

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.

Stop thinking about the easy way out, There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done, You're far too young.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

Failure is not an option

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.