Quotes About Persistence

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.

I refuse to die here. I will live to see tomorrow's dawn. One pace at a time, as God wills. One and then another. And never, never look down. - Alienor in The Autumn Throne -

Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.

You fall over, you get up again.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.

good, better, best, never let it rest, until your good is better, and your better best.

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

'Ole!' to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

She would not rest until existence was for her a sucked orange. When there was no drop of juice left, then she would fling away the rind and die content.

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.

You'd have to be so careful, more careful than we can even imagine, to keep that one spark alive. Because that's what kept you alive, in the cold and the dark.

I'm dealing with nothing too. It goes on and on.

Du musst einfach dranbleiben,' sagte er. 'Es sollte kein Zeitvertreib sein und keine Pflicht und nichts Ungewöhnliches. Es sollte das Normalste auf der Welt für dich sein.

Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen.

Ha! Also für den Fall, dass du es nicht weißt - einer der Unterschiede zwischen einem Amateur und jemandem, der professionell arbeitet, ist, dass Amateure nur arbeiten, wenn ihnen danach ist, während jemand Professionelles sich unabhängig von seiner Laune dransetzt.

It is unfortunate but true that the proof that there are rocks in the field is usually the fact that we have just hit them with the plow.

everything sustaining would last.