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Quotes About Persistence

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
~ Grace Paley
I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
~ Hillary Clinton
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.
~ Hillary Clinton
The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!
~ Hoda Kotb
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Actor's life is very long.
~ Jackie Chan
No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.
~ James Robertson
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
~ Jay Maisel
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
~ Jesse Owens
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
~ Jim Rohn
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.
~ John C. Maxwell
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
~ John C. Reilly
The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.
~ John Molina, Jr.
It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.
~ Kate Pierson
Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
~ Khaled Hosseini
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.
~ Mark Ruffalo
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
~ Joyce Meyer
One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.
~ Ilona Andrews, On the Edge
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
~ Dan Simmons, A Winter Haunting
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
~ Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor