Quotes About Persistence

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls

Maybe everything comes out all right, if you keep on trying. Anyway, you have to keep on trying; nothing will come out right if you don't.

and the "Devil's Hornpipe.

Success gets to be a habit, like anything else a fellow keeps on doing.

When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If

But why couldn't the little cat—

Rome wasn't built in a day

As she floundered on, plunging into the deep snow, she suddenly laughed aloud. Well, she thought, here I am. I dread to go on and I would not go back.

And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.

Expect the worst, because the worst is so often true, but have belief, have faith, have compassion.

Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through

Look, he even tried getting at the rope." Carl studied the scene. "With all the rodents

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.

Nill illigitamus carborundum

Most of the time you're ass deep in alligators.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.