Sarah Dessen Quotes

There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.