Quotes About Persistence

Kad es ko gribu un nevaru dab?t, es k??stu p?rgalv?gs.

It does not seem good to be always going with the current.  There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it, and winning one's way forward in spite of it—at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.

firm belief in all that is good and beautiful, and in the ultimate success of every true and honest endeavour

Non è utile andar sempre secondo corrente. V'è più soddisfazione nell'affrontarla e combatterla, e andare innanzi a suo dispetto [...]

Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).

Success is like a turtle climbing a mountain. Failure is water running downhill.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Gutter Ball You don't think we're horrible parents? You take a kid bowling now, they have these rails that come up out of the gutters. So when the stupid kid rolls the ball, it has to hit a pin. Has to. We eliminated the gutter ball. Nice preparation for life. I think the gutter ball is really the only life lesson a kid really needs to have. You either do the thing you're doing right, or there's a huge ka-klunk sound

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. But that's the whole point, I said. Seeing it. Is it? he said.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

Just cause it doesn't look like you thought it would, doesn't mean that you're not living your dream. from Stargirl

A Terra dizia: Toma aqui, um presente para você. Mas o que fazemos? Nós a removemos com pás. Nós a golpeamos. Nós a raspamos. Nós a limpamos. Saia do nosso caminho. Nós a colocamos de canto.

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

One time we attended a child with a rotting leg, covered with wrinkled brown skin, from which a bloody yellow pus oozed. The stench from the leg was so strong that even Olga had to open the door every few moments and let in a draft of fresh air. All day long I stared at the gangrenous leg while the child alternately sobbed and fell asleep.

has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?

But the only thing I can think of is Time and patience.

If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah.

as if ye have faith and it shall be given to you.

for what is love, if not the willingness to repeat oneself?

Love is wild and when it is cut returns again, stronger whether you want it to or not.