Quotes About Persistence

Now, go shovel some shit.

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

At the edges, near the tracks, tall weeds have taken over -- tough plants with stringy stalks, small leaves, and compact flowers. Designed to waste energy on nothing but getting their blooms up toward the sun.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there... and switch the bl**dy thing on yourslef!

you can acheive if you believe

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. -A

Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.

When you never bow, You are bound to rise

I can wait beyond never.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.