Quotes About Persistence

But if you can confront your inner demons—" "I did confront my inner demon. I punched him in the face and he exploded." Valkyrie had to laugh. "But now he's back." "Of course he's back. He's resourceful. He is my inner demon, after all.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.

It is I, and I stand with the girl, the Elemental and the partner of the skeleton detective, and although she is late she is here, which is the important thing, and we are moving on.

sipping from a protein shake that had aspirations of being a milkshake, but couldn't quite make it.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

Skulduggery," the tall man said eventually, his voice deep and resonant, "trouble follows in your wake, doesn't it?" "I wouldn't say follows," Skulduggery answered. "It more kind of sits around and waits for me to get there.

Things happen, Valkyrie, but life carries on regardless of how we feel.

That's the thing about redemption," said Skulduggery. "If you're looking for it, the chances are you'll never find it.

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

Sticking to it is the genius.

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?