Quotes About Persistence

Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever." It

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

Keep dreaming in color And drawing your dreams On cement floors Until they are realized. —Alicia Keys

Why give up before we try?

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..

But from this side of life, I can see how every moment, every experience, every pivot, even my supposed missteps have been life's way of getting me where I have always been meant to go. Rather than resisting the current, I've learned to surrender.

Life, like a merry-go-round, may make you dizzy but you have to hold on even in the hardest of times

You can do anything if you get up and try.

stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

Recuerda, hijo mio, un dragón es como un recaudador de impuestos: aunque sólo le debas un lingote de oro, te perseguirá por toda la eternidad." El Emperador

There is another possibly apocryphal story about the philosopher Jerry Fodor (he's the Yogi Berra of philosophy). Someone asked what his stream of consciousness was like as he wrote philosophy. His reply was that it mostly said, "Come on, Jerry, you can do it, Jerry, keep going, Jerry.

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

To all things an end. To every night a dawn. Even to longest night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.

He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."23

This is the natural next step for you. Or are you going to be satisfied running around the country solving crimes like Nancy Drew on steroids?

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.