Quotes About Persistence

You can't stop living

If he really loves you, he'll find a way.

Not gold, not flowing. Standing still.

Maybe in time. There's always time

As long as you live, there's always something waiting.

Ho vissuto ardentemente. E poi sono morto, ma non del tutto. Perché quelli come me non muoiono come chiunque altro. Persisto, come la leggenda del Blue Hole.

You almost drowned Roamer? Something like that Always finish what you start man.

She taught me from childhood that my mountain was waiting, and she never stopped encouraging me to keep climbing.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what an you do? You can't stop living.

Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. (Truman Capote, In Cold Blood)

When you first look down, you see everything — and nothing. It's as if your eyes can see only grayness. But if you tell yourself that there's treasure at your feet, your eyes will begin to see differences in the shades of gray: silvery cracks, charcoal pebbles, ashy litter. Then, when you find your first glimmering coin, your brain will understand exactly what you want, and it will start to find coins everywhere. It just takes patience.

the best we know how.

Green Eggs and Ham. The book was not actually written to encourage fussy eaters to eat, but to make Seuss's editor Bennett Cerf eat his words. (Cerf had bet Seuss he couldn't write a book using fifty words or less.) Green Eggs and Ham hit it on the nail, and Geisel won fifty dollars, or would have, but Cerf never paid.

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Baby steps – one at a time. One day at a time, one breath at a time. That's the only way anyone gets through anything, okay?

when people dedicate their lives to one thing that they really, really love and learn a lot about, amazing things can happen.

How lovely to work at something you loved and knew you were great at, even if it was for a pittance and you occasionally got punched.

Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end

And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop yourself from dreaming.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.