Quotes About Persistence

I have never known a closeness like that (…) I guess it never ends. A brother never ends. I prowl him. He does not end.

I am someone who did not die when I should have died.

Would this day never end? His eye traveled to the clock at the front of the room and he fell into the pool of his favorite question.

No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13 – 14

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. MATTHEW 26:41

I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. REVELATION 3:8

Pray continually. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. MATTHEW 17:20

I have never desired any woman as I desire you... and I shall not rest until you're mine.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

No one knocked on his door the next day. Nor the day after. Nor the one after that. But that didn't mean he was unaware of what was happening. Someone had carried a plate of those fucking biscuits past his room, and even the oak door had provided no barrier for the smell. Not for anything of hers.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Though they washed her with wineand rubbed her with butterit was to no avail.She lay as still as a gold piece.

For those learning English as a second language, there is little to do but roll the eyes, tear at the hair, and grimly memorize each one.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

She didn't know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way.

And if there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again.