Quotes About Persistence

Ser una hidra es fácil pero matarla no, porque si bien hay que matar a la hidra cortándole sus numerosas cabezas (de siete a nueve según los autores o bestiarios consultables), es preciso dejarle por lo menos una

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

para llegar al cielo se necesitan, como ingredientes, una piedrita y la punta de un zapato

En la vida, además de talento, hay que tener fortuna. Y la fortuna hay que perseguirla, no cae del cielo... Tú mismo me lo has dicho muchas veces.

El tiempo, es una lluvia paciente y amarilla que apaga poco a poco los fuegos más violentos

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!

This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.

The road to cat wand mastery is long and treacherous indeed!

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.

I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. And that's what I guess these stories are all about.

Besides it only happens when you're not looking for it. That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks.

Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.

In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.

Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. "To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.

This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her.