Quotes About Persistence

We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn.

All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles —because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it.

You aren't done with me yet?" He pinned my gaze with his own. With a surprisingly smooth accent, he told me, "Nunca voy a terminar contigo." I'll never be done with you.

If you want to reach something badly enough, you will.

The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still." —CHLOE TODD, A.K.A. BABY T-REX, OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, UNWITTING IMMORTAL

You stay on me like my godsdamned shadow, vampire. Mirceo's lips curved. Eternally, demon.

This grows wearisome, Allixta said. How long will she carry on? Till she gets what she wants or drops, Rune answered, the awe in his voice undisguised. My mate likes to keep things simple.

Chloe, what would it take to start anew with you?" Hopelessness settled over him when she murmured, "More than you've got." Yet then he reminded himself, She has no' seen all I've got.

I shut the door and turned to my task. How hard could it be to boil bathwater? I'd watched an episode of Little House on the Prairie once. Ergo: Let's do this bitch. Four burn wounds and an hour later, I was lowering myself into the little tub, waist-deep water steaming around me.

I can't steer, can't change. Before there were waves or eddies; now stone. Our enemies laugh.

This raccoon ain't treed just yet. . . .

If I have to scour the entire earth, I'll hunt her down. I will no' falter. One day I will bring my female back to my home—back to my bed . . . . She was born to be found by me. —GARRETH MACRIEVE, king of all Lykae

Nonetheless, onward. That was the circus's battle cry, the motto Ren lived by.

Girls like me don't make it to the end of the story.

You're not going to get me to wear a seat belt." At her look, he said, "Imagine the oldest, most stubborn, most cantankerous dog ever to live. He'd learn new tricks better than me.

I'll do my best.

We do not need to find something we are best at; what is important is simply that we do our best.

she looked about as hard to get as a haircut and at about the same

The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of. Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall, replied the Woodman, when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest thought.

I've learned from long experience that every road leads somewhere, or there wouldn't be any road; so it's likely that if we travel long enough, my dear, we will come to some place or another in the end. What place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out when we get there.

Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

With Dorothy hard at work, the