Quotes About Persistence

My spring is broken, and a separate exertion is necessary for the lifting up of each — and then it falls down again. I never felt so before: there is no wonder that I should feel so now. Nevertheless, I don't give up much to the pernicious languor — the tendency to lie down to sleep among the snows of a weary journey — I don't give up much to it. Only I find it sometimes at the root of certain negligences — for instance, of this toward you.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain't because we're born with it, though. It's because we're schooled to it and taught early that if we don't have it we won't never win.

Of the things that bind the universe together, gravity is not particularly strong a force, as it happens. It just…never stops reaching. That always sort of made me feel good about gravity. It's always looking for the next rock, always something down a breaker in space-time, whipping something in a long, arcing curve around something else. Gravity doesn't give up. It keeps on trucking.

What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.

I'm an M.D. A shitty one, but sometimes shitty is better than nothing. I'll do what I have to do.

Persistent tatters glowed orange and blue against a backdrop of stars, a vast, doomed displayed of color and light.

Swing hard; follow through to the other side of whatever you are swinging at. Zanya Farweather had been swinging at my soul.

Even when the world ends, you still have to get up and plow the next morning.

Apparently Farweather was going to keep talking no matter what.

The feeling of being unguarded and unable to follow a mental thread was relentless.

He could not be distracted by his darling girls when he must be about seducing villains.

She said she could do it. Either she can, or she can't, and riding her about it just wastes everyone's time.

I must discern how I may invade the Tower of London, from which I have myself only recently escaped.

The quarry lies ahead, the pack lies behind; the grass and gravel and tramped earth lie steady beneath his feet.

Even after the end of the world, there was weeding.

It's not about how much you know. It's about what you consistently do. It's not about taking notes; it's about taking action.

I decided to give more to the goal than to the limitations.

If you tell your subconscious that you can be great for a few days, but then always blow it, you've given it both instruction and permission to give up after a few days.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

Even though he'd told himself all these things for years—over and over again, in fact, ad nauseum, in fact, world without end, amen, amen, in fact—hadn't he proved just the opposite to himself over the past month and a half?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.