Quotes About Persistence

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

Some people float through life while the rest of us pull the barge.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on, 'tis all in vain. You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a Gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back, they blind the mocking Eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The Atoms of Democritus And Newton's Particles of light Are sands upon the Red sea shore Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Our dreams have been assaulted by a memory that will not sleep

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

now i can get them teeth

He puts his shoes on, stomping into them, like he does everything, like he is hoping all the time he really cant do it and can quit trying to.