Quotes About Persistence

They experience a 'divine discontent,' as Jeff Bezos called it," between what is and what might be—and they act.

A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

Good readers perceive reading as something they will do for their entire life, not just to pass a class.

They rarely stopped while reading a piece to try to repair their confusion. They kept doggedly on until they finished the "assignment," even though they had no idea what they were reading.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

And yet, what else could he do but try the next

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park.

It's hard to get rid of vampires. You have to drag them into the light. -Cynthia D. Grant, Uncle Vampire

She'd fight until she was broken. She would NOT give up.

If you say something over and over and over, maybe they'll give in to shut you up.

I didn't like to quit anything, but sometimes things just don't work out and it's better to admit it and try something else.

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Every day, I bang into the intolerable wall of my limits, but I just keep going on. Like a bicycle. If I stop, I'll fall.

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedgeDriven by invisible blows,The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

I'll read it," he said, smiling. " But you needn't worry. As long as you write about things that interest you your books will interest other people. Just keep on writing. Don't stop.

If there's no future in what you're doing you should cut your losses and try another line.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.