Quotes About Persistence

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

How did you do it?" we asked Don. "How did you make it to the top of Mount Rainier on one leg?" "One hop at a time," he said.

The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do. Prayer changes us into the people who can participate in the greater work of God without being spoiled by it through pride or becoming discouraged by the increased weight of greater fruitfulness.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough.

God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Let the Great Shepherd lead; and by winding ways not without green pastures and still waters, we shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

Indeed, the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

None arrives at the races, purchases Daily Racing Form, and within minutes begins to play.

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

James R. Chiles

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. -James Ramsey Ullman

Hope is a door left unlatched in a high wind banging and banging itself to pieces.