Quotes About Persistence

If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

The Lord made a way. He has a knack for doin' that. Makin' a way outa no way.

As long as we pray believing. The only way to pray, missy. The onliest way.

Let us not fail, my ladies. Let us do more, always do more than we think we're capable of. As we embark on this journey, ask yourself now and every day—every bad day, every good day—if you have done your best." She paused; then, as she slowly swept her gaze around our little assembled entourage again, she said, "Ask yourself even now—especially now—as in the words of the poet Edgar Guest, 'Have you earned your tomorrow?

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

this book attempts to tackle: the temporal and affective space in which colonial inequities endure and the forms in which they do so.

A watched pot never boils

Edward. It lives under your skin. It's not going away. It's part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you've been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the

H)oping is a big part of homesteading. Hoping and trying again when what you hope for doesn't come.

You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.

sometimes people couldn't be saved, no matter how much you wanted it, no matter how hard you tried.

If you give up then someday you might give up on your own life.

The heart beats steadily, more certain.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

This gander likes to do his own chasing, Madam Goose.

Because nothing but annihilation would stop him wanting Serena. Even then, he'd probably come back and haunt her.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

To understand her," I say, "you have to understand what she was trying to do. Dora was ... a verb.

Si tu tiens vraiment à quelque chose dans la vie, eh bien, fais ce qu'il faut pour ne pas le perdre.

T?da ir gandr?z ikviena cilv?ka dz?ve. M?s laipojam, mekl?jam kompromisus, mums katram ir savs mazais g??vums ?ep?s k? parastam dz?vniekam. M?s to glaud?m pa spalvai, m?s to dres?jam, m?s tam pie?eramies. T?da ir dz?ve. Ir drosm?gie, un ir tie, kuri piel?gojas. Tas nogurdina daudz maz?k – piel?goties…