Quotes About Persistence

A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, "If a road is not presented, you build one.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness—cutting

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Nosotros esperaremos regularmente a que se haya borrado la última huella para empezar a buscarla.

Necesario es abrir paso a las aguas profundas, que acabarán por romper el dique, diariamente aumentadas por un manantial vivo.

The wide and strange land shaped and reshaped human institutions to its own purposes, and one either learned to live with the blazing sun, the scarcity of water, the dust and interminable distances, and the whispering quiet of empty canyons and mesas, or he admitted failure and moved elsewhere.

A journey does not end when it ends.

There comes a point when life is not worth enduring if one steps back.

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

As far as Kendra was concerned, defiance needed to get you somewhere, or it was just...being noisy.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.

You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

If you ask a question, you can't stop there. You must keep going. You can't stop there: World will wave; will be facetious, angry. You can't stop there. You have to keep on going.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

I will wait for you forever.