Quotes About Persistence

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.

stretch, weeding out his own ranks. Our attempt at an end

Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? But he went onward.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the

If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.

If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going." Along with the inspirational spirituals for which Moses became so beloved, this motto has been handed down to the present generation as part of her enduring legacy.

Just so you know, now that I know what it's like to kiss you, I'm never going to stop.

You were always going to see me again.' He grins. 'I had a promise to keep, didn't I?' Neither of us point out that it was a promise to say goodbye.

Sitting down in the evenings became a kind of torture, a bleak realization of her talents laid out against the bright shimmering fabric of her dreams. Yet she couldn't stop, she couldn't give up so easily. To stop writing completely produced in her a bleak and relentless depression, so she stubbornly persisted, plodding through endless drafts and revisions, telling herself she was learning something each time.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

I told you I'd find you.

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.

From Alex To Rosie Subject Dreams Again, Rosie, you're just not stretching far enough. I'm right here. Always have been, always will be.

I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.

I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow

I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.

Inveniam viam - I shall either find a way or make one.