Quotes About Persistence

It is always the case: if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. You are always conscious of a wound.

With the publication of this book, Velikovsky's reputation thereafter and until his death found itself in deep, very deep, dodo, the kindest expression of which was that he "kindled a worldwide debate," which was conducted not only with enormous fervor, but also with serious dollops of malice, vengeful mouth-frothing by energetic intellectuals, etc. The central reason for the debate

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

The more obstacles you encounter, the harder you must fight to meet your destiny. Never let adversity win. Never give up on yourself and the good you can bring to the world.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out.

One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the number of rewrites and revisions usually required by the former. It isn't at all easy to write clear, declarative prose—transparency evolves from ruthless cutting and trimming and is hard work—while lumpy, tangle-footed writing flows from the pen as if inspired by the Muse.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

Never give up in the face of adversity. It is in the midst of adversity that we grow stronger.

We will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —GALATIANS 6:9

Your prayers are powerful. To resist is to take action; it is not being passive. It means you take a stand and don't budge, come wind or high water. You stand on God's promises while confessing His Word. When you do this, then God does the rest.

I can't do anything else but my

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.