Quotes About Persistence

I'd say determination is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If the founders I spoke with were superhuman in any way, it was in their perseverance.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.

Julie Seagle If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. "Gogol

She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.

And she refused to go to that miserable place that Julian had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

This stationery store has been one of my haunts for years. When I was a young girl I'd go there to get what I needed for school, then for college, and now for teaching. Every purchase, however mundane, makes me happy. Each item validates my life somehow.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.