Quotes About Persistence

If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.

I didn't know what else to do. I don't have anywhere else to go, I can't go back. I'm trying to move forward all the time but I'm grasping at everything and can't catch on to anything.

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.

I just know that there's a job for me at the end of the rainbow.

You need to keep your strength up, or those fuckers will get you down.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

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 on having to be found.

sometimes it's about living life 'one letter' at a time.

The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the same things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly," I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to his son Lucien, "that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.… You must harness yourself to drawing.

Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it.

And I do not live in broad infamy, nor hide from righteous pursuers or seekers of the truth. I do not mask my face or screen my doings of each day. I have not yet been banished from this earth. And though nearly every soul I've closely known has come to some dread or grave misfortune, I instead persist, with warmth and privilege accruing to me unabated, ever securing my good station here, the last place I will belong.

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

you have to play it out sometimes.

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

Now! I told myself briskly, to ward off the melancholy, as I dumped my cup and wrapper in the trash bin and left the restaurant. Now to work, then home, then out on a real date, and tomorrow get out early in the morning to find those boxes! I should have remembered that my plans seldom work out.

suck failure, fur face!

But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay.

Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!

Inspiration comes of working every day.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I was quite small as a lad compared to everyone else so I didn't stand a chance at Southampton. They told me one day that they weren't interested so I moved on. I just went away and enjoyed my football.

To say I wasn't such a hit with the ladies would be a very kind way of putting it. I was a slow burner, shall we say.