Quotes About Persistence

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly.

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison

Poison is like the drowned; it always floats.

Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.

Perhaps you've noticed that successful people are not always the best or the brightest, the quickest or strongest. Yet they're always the ones who do whatever it takes to succeed. A goal without commitment results in a nonentity, and usually falls by the wayside from a lack of interest by its beholder.

La oración persistente, basada en la ley de Dios, constituye un asunto del reino, y Dios se preocupa por su justa reputación.

Los ingredientes de la oración eficaz incluyen fe, autoridad, entrega, obediencia, tenacidad y confianza.

Si pudiéramos comprender realmente todo lo que sucede en el reino invisible en respuesta a nuestras oraciones, la oración sería la prioridad en cada una de nuestras vidas. Se convertiría en nuestro primer recurso y nuestra mejor herramienta. Haríamos lo que dice Pablo, sin necesidad de que nos lo recuerden: orar sin cesar (1 Ts. 5:17) y orar en todo lugar (1 Ti. 2:8).

INTERJECTION: Never give up!

That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

Los buscadores dedicamos horas y horas, día tras día, haga el tiempo que haga, con la cara quemada por el sol, el cabello enmarañado por el viento, los ojos siempre entornados y las manos agrietadas. Tenemos las botas llenas de barro y con manchas del agua de mar. Nuestra ropa acaba mugrienta al final de la jornada. A menudo no encontramos nada, pero somos pacientes y trabajadores y no nos desanimamos cuando regresamos a casa con las manos vacías.

If your art cannot support your life, your life must support your art.

become the adviser to presidents and an honored member of New England society. Ohiyesa, or Eastman, went to Beloit College where he learned English and immersed himself in the culture and ways of the white world. Upon graduation he went east. He attended Dartmouth College, then was accepted into medical school at Boston University, which he completed in 1890. He returned to his native Midwest to work among his own people as a physician on the Pine Ridge reservation

It's all right. It's like stumbling on a rock on the roadside. It's petty...a small thing. The place you want to go...is more distant farther off. So...it's all right. You'll stand up. And you'll start walking. Soon...

You're going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again… soon.' – Guts

Dreams. Win or lose...I'm sure you could spend your whole life chasing one.

I think I'll try crying and shouting and biting my way through. Maybe I can change something.

Struggle. Keep struggling and struggling until the end of ends, then struggle some more. There's no fighting just to die.

You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon.

If life were easy, it wouldn't be difficult.

a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit

It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.

nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.