Quotes About Persistence

Sam Kalenuik has that enables him to say, "When the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.

J. K. Rowling was on welfare when she wrote the first Harry Potter book and has stated that she considered herself "the biggest failure I knew," but this didn't stop her.

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

A goal is a dream that is written down with every intention to achieve.

Effort is the key ingredient when the destination appears to far away to reach.

Patience is the discipline to we have that will enable us to reach the goals we aspire to achieve without taking the easy detour which leads to a dead end.

The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years." — Bobby Fischer, in 1971. Fischer, of course, did not keep his word and hid for 20 years instead of three.

But we got through it." He shook his head. "You never get over it. You just get through it. Know what I mean?

y por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

The road I maintained and patched with rock I had to crush myself—that road resembled my own life.

los verdaderos pensamientos provienen del exterior, (...) por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

Dad almost delighted at how the graves had resisted, how they had had to bring caterpillar tractors, how the chains had burst, but in the end they had succeeded, they had to succeed in tearing those old times out of the ground...

Bez przerwy pi? nie mo?na. Dlatego si? dokszta?cam".

Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

Talent is not rare. What's rare is the devotion and stamina to keep writing, and the ability to build on the successes that your work already displays.

Three decades of swimming, of chasing equilibrium, have kept my head firmly above water. Swimming can enable survival in ways beyond the physical.

Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, & again, & forever again.

How long, how long must we sing this song?

I have climbed highest mountains, I have run through the field, only to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, only to be with you. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

I have climbed highest mountains I have run through the fields Only to be with you I have run I have crawled I have scaled these city walls These city walls Only to be with you But I still haven't found what I'm kooking for

It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn't play other people's. Baby steps for a baby band.