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Quotes About Persistence

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.
~ Richard Wheeler
The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting, gently lean forward and pull against the table. When the going gets tough, cross your arms to help perseverance in the face of failure. If that doesn't work, lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.
~ Richard Wiseman
praising effort encourages people to stretch themselves, work hard, and persist in the face of difficulties.
~ Richard Wiseman
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
~ Richard Yates
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.
~ Richard Yates
You'll piss when you can't whistle
~ Richard Zacks
Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)
~ Richelle Mead
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri
~ Richelle Mead
I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
~ Richelle Mead
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
~ Richelle Mead
Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.
~ Richelle Mead
Stop bitching and try again.
~ Richelle Mead
It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.
~ Richelle Mead
The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.
~ Richelle Mead
Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.
~ Richelle Mead
To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth
~ Richelle Mead
Rose. Please stop. Please stay away." [...] In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
~ Richelle Mead
Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~ Richelle Mead
See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.
~ Richelle Mead
And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.
~ Richelle Mead
Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible.
~ Richelle Mead
Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination." Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
~ Richelle Mead
We can be together, Rose. Soon. We're almost there. And nothing will ever keep us apart.......
~ Richelle Mead
And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else
~ Richelle Mead