Quotes About Persistence

Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

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

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

You have to admit, it's kind of impressive.... Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

There is always the rest of the story, right? Even if you don't know right now what it is.

Get back on that bike.

No creo en el fracaso porque al decir que hemos fracasado, ya estamos admitiendo que lo hemos intentado. Y todo el que lo intenta no fracasa. Los que fracasan, en mi opinión, son los que ni siquiera lo intentan. Los que se quedan sentados en el sofá y se quejan y gimotean y esperan que el mundo cambie para ellos.

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

Says the girl with no thyme.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

I don't think I like you." "A common reaction," he replied. "I'll win you over. Eventually." She

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Maybe it was a stupid exercise, and you couldn't grow things in winter. But there was something I liked about he idea of those seeds, buried so deep, having at least a chance to emerge. Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked so hard, all alone, to grow.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.

But you never know what you can do until you try, and if you're lucky, what you love will always be waiting for you.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken." I wanted to say he was lucky he even had a choice. That for most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

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.

As I crossed the lobby to the boardwalk, all I could think was that regardless of the performance I'd just witnessed, it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Life is long, just because you don't get your chance right when it comes, doesn't mean It won't come.