Quotes About Persistence

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

La repetición es un factor esencial, no sólo para adiestrar a los animales, sino también a los humanos.

Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.

Finally it doesn't matter whether you're a cork on the water or a man chasing his own grail.

After you left me I had a bloodhound sniff at my chest and my belly. Let it fill its nostrils and set out to find you. I hope it will find you and rip your lover's balls to shreds and bite off his cock— or at least bring me one of your stockings between its teeth.

This is the magic formula – desire toward a goal, which spawns action toward that goal. Continuous desire is the fuel. Daily action is the fire. The word "continuous" is important, as is the word "goal." Without these two operative functions, desires are scattered, actions are unfocused, and not much happens. With them, anything is achievable.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

its kinda like the quest for the Holy Grail. Who gives a shit what the Holy Grail is, the quest is what's important. The transformation is within yourself, that's what is important.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Deal with the drops when you can see the ocean." "Another

In the case of On Beauty, my OPD spun completely out of control: I reworked those first twenty pages for almost two years. To look back at all past work induces nausea, but the first twenty pages in particular bring on heart palpitations. It's like taking a tour of a cell in which you were once incarcerated.

Even the simplest ideas I'd brought with me did not seem to work

True love isn't easy but it must be fought for, because once you find it, it can never be replaced." —Unknown

nothing beats a fail but a try.

If you want fame or wealth or wolves, go out and hunt for them.

if she had just climbed a laborsome

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Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.