Quotes About Perseverance

If you ever fall into quicksand, the most important thing to remember is this: take your time. Quicksand, unlike water, will not move out of the way to let you pass. Instead, it resists movement. Flailing about will only cause you to sink deeper. But slowly gets you safely to shore. It's no accident that each episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood opens with a shot of a traffic light flashing in yellow caution mode.

I think it's exactly like that. When you think you can't do it anymore. You have to ignore it and keep going. Trust in your training.

Sweet baby Jesus, what do I have to do? Sing Closer to Fine a hundred times to earn the password to the lesbian clubhouse?" She

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

We'll fix it in the morning, sweetheart. You can't save the world after 1:00 a.m. Not even you.

Maybe that's why his lovers hadn't worked out so far. Maybe before you got someone who would fight to have you, you had to be ready to kill or die for them first.

A volte i piccoli sogni avevano grandezza, pensò con dignità. A volte, i piccoli sogni erano tutto quello di cui aveva bisogno una persona per vivere

I don't know why you stuck with me. I just wanted to be worth it, that's all.'

Maybe I can move mountains, change the color of the sky and tilt the center of the world, just to play basketball, just to see you look at me like I can do anything, just so I don't let you down.

WALL•E—the hapless knight in rusted armor. Except WALL•E had eventually been very important to the object of his affection, hadn't he?

The world's pretty fucked up. A man that can see the good and the beauty and keep walkin' toward it? And wants to hold your hand while he's goin'? That's gotta be a man you'd follow.

By the time the guys left that night, I had a dresser, a coffee table, and a mattress that had been inflated by all of us because the little electric motor kept spazzing out. (One of us would get light-headed midblow and tap out.)

Not like that," Ellery whispered, rubbing Jackson's lip with his thumb now. "Like… like you were fading from us, transparent. Like you had given up your body, your life with me, because it was just too damned hard." "It was hard," Jackson admitted.

Mal kissed him, softly, barely keeping balance, and then pulled away. "If there's breath in my body, I'll stay." Tevyn nodded. "If there's breath in my body, I'll always fly down the mountain to you.

Parish told me… he said he would stay with me as long as he possibly could. Until God dragged him away by the heels, kicking and screaming the whole time.

God, "Kashmir" was a long damned song.

They'd perfected this maneuver with the birth of Nica's fifth child and Taylor's namesake, the irrepressible Princess T.

Your ass is trying to make shit into diamonds," Mackey snapped,

You live. Whether I'm out there or not, you live. Because leaving you is going to be like ripping my arms off, and my lungs, and all the other things, and the only thing keeping me from bleeding out is going to be knowing you're okay. So you find a purpose, you start school, you fall in love again, but you live!

It's hard to look for another man when your sky turns black and the world has crumbled up and turned to powder. I don't have a spare heart in my pocket in case you don't learn to duck and I lose you. You have to have faith in the world to love, Jackson. You are my faith. Don't take my faith away from me.

We want you here in thirty years, asshole!" had been Jon's final word on the subject, and Deacon found that he didn't have much fight left in him when it came to being separated from Crick.

I'm not leaving, and I'm not giving up. I think I've finally learned my lesson. Men stay.

Yeah, you gotta stomp down on your emotions until they rise up, grab you by the throat, shake you around a little, and then grind you into the pavement. I've done that.

You're a hero for walking away," Jackson said soberly. "You're a hero for pressing charges. You're a hero for dealing with that for eleven years and still believing in the good in people. You'll never fool me again, asshole. I know who I'm dealing with now." Henry's eyes burned.