Quotes About Persistence

Chances are everything's already been said, but since no one is paying attention you have to start all over again.

deserves your best every day of your life.

The world breaks is always breaking our bodies bear tremendous sorrow and still we stay as long as we can

An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

You can bullshit all you want about sex and one-night stands, but I'm not done with you yet and you know it. I get what I want, and I want you.

I want you, and I'm not the kind of guy to sit back and wait for good things to come to me.

the wall. Then he grabbed his

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

Incluso en estos tiempos de aprender a vivir sin esperarte, todos los días tengo recaídas y aunque quiera olvidar no se me olvida que no puedo olvidarte.

Tanto la quería, que, tardé, en aprender a olvidarla, diecinueve días y quinientas noches.

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

He gained a world; he gave that worldIts grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible ' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

That's all any of us can do. Try. sometimes I think it's not the winning or the losing, or even the right and wrong of things, it's the trying that makes us keep on living and hoping.

Triumph comes through perserverance.

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side.

If I cannot have you in this life then I will wait for your next, and I will find you again, this I vow.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.

Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, 'Well, it's not my rock.

One step at a time,' he muttered to himself as he clambered up the slope. That was the only way to look at it. If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.