Quotes About Persistence

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the war.

Have you ever tried to stop her from doing something she wants to do?' Desiderio asked. Mahdi sighed. 'Yeah, actually, I have,' he said. 'No further explanation needed.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

I know the task ahead seems impossible, but all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Leaving us again?' Sera asked. Astrid snorted. 'I've been trying to leave you ever since I met. I never seem to get very far.' Sera smiled at that.

Most people hear an airplane in the sky and think, 'There's an airplane,' and go back to what they were doing. A few folks look around for the airplane, try to figure out what kind of plane it is, and watch it from the time they spot it to the time it disappears on the horizon, maybe after that. Those kids are the ones who will be pilots." He pointed at me. "I knew that about you. I've just been waiting for you to show up.

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

That still seemed like a good idea, back on failed attempt number three.

But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again. You must keep going. You must learn not to take no for an answer.

What he lacks in clarity, he makes up for in consistency.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours—days, if I have to.

If my life has taught me anything, it's that curiosity and expediency have a sneaky, inexorable power. Resisting them is easy for a minute—a hundred minutes—even a year. But not forever.

Problems he couldn't solve made him angry.

Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?

Time's a goon, right?" You gonna let that goon push you around?

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?" Scotty shook his head. "The goon won.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth     ââ'¬â€Persian Proverb

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying. Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God. Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them. The short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not prevailed with God in a mightier struggle of long continuance.