Quotes About Persistence

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

What took you so long?" Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will's attaché case. "I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you'd want an original," Evie snapped.

But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

Do you think some places just hold on to evil? That you can't paint or wash it away? It lives on, no matter what you build on top

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places

She had learned that if you kept asking the same question, you would often get different answers, and eventually the evasions would cease and the real answer would emerge.

Linda Lael Miller

Lily remembered Sandra saying that Caleb's mind couldn't be changed by a blast of dynamite once he'd made it up on a subject, and she had a hunch both women were right. Caleb was the most hardheaded man on earth.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting.

Tree-ear has taken his first step toward his dream. Realizing a dream can be very hard, though. Sometimes, a dream can seem so far away, it almost disappears. But maybe if Tree-ear takes it one hill, one valley, one day at a time, just maybe, he'll be able to make his dream come true.

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York

There was always plenty of fruit that clung stubbornly to the seed. He would nibble and suck at it to get every last shred, making it last for hours.

with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. —MARGARET THATCHER At

It takes the heart of a warrior to pursue a lion with a lamb in its mouth.