Quotes About Persistence

Dream until the taste of fulfillment is the only taste you know.

Every opportunity you need in life is behind a door. How many doors are you willing to knock down?

Life is your seesaw. You may not stay balanced long, but you can aim for a high after every low.

Your vision and willpower must be exponentially greater than any goal, resolution or vision board you have ever written.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Aunque me canse, aunque no pueda, aunque reviente, aunque me muera.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Aku mencintaimu. Itulah sebabnya aku tak pernah berhenti mendoakanmu.

When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.

When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

The devils we run away from are the ones that pursue us most vigorously, and will only be defeated when you turn to face them down.

If you consider yourself a writer just write.

People think love is, you know, this spiritual thing," the lama said. "This feeling. But that's not my thing. In my book, love is a physical act. Love is not ethereal. Love is sticking by someone when they're in the nuthouse. Love is when you keep calling someone even when they don't call you back. Love is dirty and solid. Love is, you know, earth and shit and blood and hair.

Mysteries never end," Constance Darling, Silette's student, told me once, "And I always thought maybe none of them really get solved, either. We only pretend we understand when we can't bear it anymore. We close the file and close the case, but that doesn't mean we've found the truth, Claire. It only means that we've given up up on this mystery and decided to loo for truth someplace else.

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

On NCIS or White Collar, I'd forcefully persuade a reluctant judge to issue a search warrant and then persuade my equally reluctant boss to give me access to a portable X-ray machine, and then I'd find Sebastian's body and make an arrest—after a near-death escape from Nabiyev, whom I'd overpower despite his bigger size and more massive gun power. I wished I were a TV detective.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

Gray had not gotten better.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Never say never -A

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. —A