Quotes About Persistence

n'a plus la certitude qu'on va gagner, dans cette lutte contre la méchanceté des collines.

Si on pouvait seulement aller jusqu'au saule !

They went down to the stream. It was all bearded with dirty grasses and was grumbling, for the rains had filled it with water. So it complained. It complained of being too fat. It was never satisfied. In summer it spent its time moaning that it was going to die, and then...Streams were always like that.

Or we of the tribe who delude ourselves into thinking the Orioles will one day win the World Series!

Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking to catch up with all my dreams.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. I get inspiration from working. I just have to push through and finally it'll start to come together again. The brain is always going, you just don't realize it.

No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn't, she taught herself to do it.

Excelsior, you fatheads.

You didn't give up wanting things because your life had put them out of reach.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

We all have a collection of memories that we would happily lose, but somehow those are just the ones that insist upon sticking.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.

Leurs cheveux pouvaient bien grouiller de poux, leurs gencives saigner, leurs ventres crier dans le vide, ils avaient l'éclatante santé des rêveurs.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn't reappear.

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