Quotes About Persistence

pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

Moths swarmed around the parking lot lamps, banging into the glass with a steady tap-tap-tap, and I wondered if they welcomed the dawn. At dawn, they could stop slamming their heads into the thing that forever kept them from the light. People don't have a dawn. We just keep slamming away until it kills us.

What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often? Is it that never the ease, even the hardness, of rain falling will have for me something other than this, something not so insistent— am I to be locked in this final uneasiness.

What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often?

Keep on truckin'.

On that long road to success, and I emphasize the word long, you will stumble. You have the choice of remaining on the ground or you can pick yourself up, and struggle again on that path that you hope will take you to the career or the success that you have dreamed of. Don't give up, just persevere."   Justice Joyce Kennard Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

going?" he called without losing

Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?

the reverend was back on his feet

they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.

Robert Dickie

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Me and the crickets've been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.

We die and everything goes on, the same as before.

It's been twenty years, Lieutenant. I've gone through it every day for twenty years. I'll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.

It's like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.

a female officer said. She also remained Seattle's only female homicide detective

twenty years, the odds of finding Sarah

We got bubkes," he said. "We're still running down an out-of-state plate in California and one up in British Columbia. We're making nice to our buddies across the border.

comprehension.

Reichert, David, Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

Did you do better than that?

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!