Quotes About Persistence

I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage to continue, to go to the end of the line and not be deterred.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

Moving to South Africa and trying to make a mark as a cricketer and then make it to the international team hasn't been easy. This is why I want to enjoy every moment of it.

I got a full-ride scholarship to the University of South Carolina for track.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

Rise or Fall you must not stop doing.

Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

Never stop believing, have your own happy end.

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

As the waves relentlessly seek the shore, so my thoughts continually return to you.

No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.

You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?

You don't appreciate the things that come easy. The things we fight for are the things we keep with us forever.