Quotes About Persistence

Caballo había pasado tantos años navegando estos caminos que tenía apodos para las piedras que encontraba bajo sus pies: algunas eran «ayudantes», porque te permitían dar el paso con potencia hacia delante; otras eran «embusteras», porque parecían ayudantes pero rodaban a traición cuando despegabas; y algunas eran «chingoncitos», pequeños cabrones listos para hacerte caer. —

Christopher McDougall

Hay algo realmente extraño en nosotros los humanos; no solo somos realmente buenos en carreras de resistencia, lo somos durante períodos de tiempo extremadamente largos. Somos máquinas hechas para correr. Y la máquina nunca se desgasta. «Uno

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career?it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslapt? ir kamuojasi d?l jos taip niekada ir nepriart?dami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Glory comes from keeping on trying when you're losing, not from giving up!

God does not ask that you never fail—He asks only that you persevere.

I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work

A quilt may take a year, but if you just keep doing it, you get a quilt.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.