Quotes About Persistence

I have to figure, with this many stops and starts, surely this train will pull out of the station eventually. What's the big fucking rush?

He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.

É uma grande mentira dizer que só existe uma pessoa com quem se vai ficar pelo resto da vida. Se tiver sorte? E se se esforçar bastante? Sempre haverá mais de uma.

It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.

creature doing its delicate work, scratching to gain entry. To the Esteemed

Yet the body insists on the struggle for life. Why?

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

If the windmill should prove too formidable, said he, from the threshold, I may see what can be done with the wind.

I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

The next one's also from Thoreau. 'If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because

You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.

What we had both done was keep on keeping on, which is all any of us can do.

There is hope for you yet. -Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles

I'd settle for just getting my head above the shit line before I drown.