Quotes About Persistence

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.

Datemi del romantico, se vi va. Ma io credo nel crimine perfetto. Come il vero amore, è solo questione di tempo e pazienza.

Witches don't just quit

Why do boys always run? And when did I stop running?

Prazos largos são fáceis de subscrever; a imaginação os faz infinitos.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

When you can't see light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to remember to keep going.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.