Quotes About Persistence

He couldn't go on. He went on.

Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.

Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.

I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.

Stifling hope is a hopeless business.

her to me and asked if I

Mister Sensei Essay Writer Guy opens his eyes momentarily, smiles, and says, "When you are not writing, be thoroughly not writing; when you are writing, be writing through and through.

I run each morning, two, three, sometimes four kilometers. Part of March, all of April, all of May. I can't run five. I am eating up kilometers on my way to where it is always twilight. I am running out of this world.

she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare.

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

Well, for inexperienced pray-ers it sometimes is. You see, they're apt to think of God as a slot-machine. If nothing comes out they say 'I knew dashed well it was empty' — when the whole secret of prayer is knowing the machine's full." "But how can one know?" "By filling it oneself." "With faith?" "With faith.

Bad times don't last long. It's all about how you look at the situation. You can either get stuck in that shit or move past it. It's good that you pushing through.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

I was not a happy runner. I did it to stay interested in my body, to stay informed, and to set up clear lines of endeavor, a standard to meet, a limit to stay within. I was just enough of a puritan to think there must be some virtue in rigorous things, although I was careful not to overdo it. I never wore the clothes. the shorts, tank top, high socks. Just running shoes and a lightweight shirt and jeans. I ran disguised as an ordinary person.

When the going gets tough the tough get going

I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The

In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said.

He spent half his life looking for bottle openers in other peoples' kitchens.

Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.

At what point is it acceptable to give up?

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint' -archy the cockroach