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Quotes About Persistence

Remember the acorn. Even when you don't see it growing, it's pushing past the dirt. Reaching for the sun. Growing stronger.
~ Sharon G. Flake
But you gotta do what you gotta do till you can do better.
~ Sharon G. Flake
Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Do not let anyone stop you from succeding
~ Sharon M. Draper
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
~ Sharon Salzberg
What's really transformative is our willingness to keep going, our openness to possibility, our patience, our effort, our humor, our growing self-knowledge, and the strength that we gain as we keep going.
~ Sharon Salzberg
relaxed perseverance.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.
~ Sharon Salzberg
When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Despite everything, she was stupid enough to love him still. Sadly, some part of her probably always would.
~ Shayla Black
But bears it out, even to the edge of doom...
~ Shayla Black
Tori hurried after him, knowing nothing would be the same again.
~ Shayla Black
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~ Sheila Graham
determined to go on and do her job and we
~ Sheila Weller
McNasty. "Is that enough?" "Not
~ Sheldon Siegel
a stretch to me." It begs the obvious question. "Pete
~ Sheldon Siegel
Before Van realized it, he was walking her back toward her stairs. He didn't stop kissing her, he wouldn't. The last thing he wanted was for her to change her mind. He managed to get her to the upstairs hallway before she pulled her mouth away. What are you doing? she panted out. Taking you to your bed. Forget it. And Van, if he were a crying man, would be sobbing. Until uptight Irene Conridge added, The wall. Use the Wall.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90
~ Sheri L. Dew
She went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them, but she made the attempt.
~ Sherman Alexie
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
~ Sherman Alexie
Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.
~ Sherman Alexie
I walked out of the classroom and felt like dancing and singing. It all gave me hope. It gave me a little bit of joy. And I kept trying to find the little pieces of joy in my life. That's the only way I managed to make it through all of that death and change
~ Sherman Alexie
Over, under, around, or through. There is always a way. - Soteria
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon