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Quotes About Persistence

It's not the end of the world, Pea. Just pick up and keep going.
~ Larry McMurtry
He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.
~ Larry McMurtry
You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
~ Larry McMurtry
travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson
~ Larry Niven
Hindmost? A head turned back. Sometimes there's no point in giving up.
~ Larry Niven
It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)
~ Larry Rosenberg
We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
It passes, but it does not pass away.
~ László Krasznahorkai
Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]
~ Laura Dave
only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.
~ Laura Dave
That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.
~ Laura Dave
There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.
~ Laura Dave
You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.
~ Laura Dave
Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you. [Hannah Hall]
~ Laura Dave
Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.
~ Laura Dave
Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy…
~ Laura Dave
When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.
~ Laura Dave
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —LEWIS CARROLL
~ Laura Dave
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
~ Laura Dave
To figure out how to be brave enough to find the life I wanted. To hold it, once it was found.
~ Laura Dave
I know it sounds crazy. How can someone figure out how to stay by going again? " I said, trying to explain it. "But going again is the only way I've ever found what I'm looking for.
~ Laura Dave
Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.
~ Laura Dave
She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.
~ Laura Dave
No one else has a clue what you're doing, but at the end of the day, you get to where you want to go.
~ Laura Dave