Quotes About Persistence

Do you think she'll catch him before he gets to the hall?" "My mom's spent her whole life chasing me around," Clary said. "She moves fast.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

I will repeat history over and over. I'm one of those girls where I would just rather beat it into the ground than go through the rest of my life wondering how it would have worked out.

I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

But one of the things I was proudest of with Deep Space Nine is that I began to realize that it takes a great deal more courage to stay and deal with problems that don't get solved than it is to go in, meet somebody, change their lives or have them teach us something, and then zoom out to the next person.

A writer is thinking about what he's supposed to be doing, whether he's actually doing it or not, every waking hour. He's constantly pondering problems.

I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The dream shall never die.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

Because it's just not in the makeup of people with ADHD or VAST to give up. Sticking to something is a terrific quality if the something is productive and makes you happy or your life better. But sticking to something just for the sake of sticking to it is a Sisyphean undertaking—pushing that old boulder up the hill day after day only to have it roll back down the next.

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.