Quotes About Persistence

Sigo aquí, putas. Y lo sé todo. —A.

La memoria es una cosa caprichosa. Y a veces, estamos condenados a repetir las cosas que hemos olvidado.

Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long.

When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore.

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

We just have to get back to normal. You know what Winston says – when you're going through hell, just keep going.

Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

The lesson is this: When the road gets dark and all hope seems lost, there's nothing to do but keep going. We, like Bilbo, must keep up our "hobbitry in heart." Even more important, as people of faith, we recognize that we are not alone. Whatever happens from this point on, we put our trust in God. And we go on.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Daleina would not be kept from her fate. She'd run toward it, arms open, and kick fate in the face.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.