Sarah Dessen Quotes

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

If your dream requires patience, give it.

These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.