Quotes About Persistence

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

One day McKenna got hot enough

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

There is nothing as weak as water, but when it attacks and is persistent, nothing can withstand it. -Lao Tse

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

Even when I look away I am still looking.

Leave the lights on. Keep talking. I'll keep walking toward the sound of your voice.

I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

People fall down and stay down

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

Scents, dreams, thoughts — even words — they all try to stick around, but we ignore them, so they leave.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.