Quotes About Persistence

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.

One resolution to the habitual pattern of withdrawal and surrender is to realize that their life doesn't get any better when they pull inward and give up.

Life goes on, even when you think it can't. Even when you don't especially want it to.

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.

Writing is a craft which can be learned like any other. It is not, as some believe, a mystical gift granted only to a fortunate few. Writing simply involves a good deal of time, intense labor and, most of all, self-discipline.

I think I made good movies.

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

You work with what you are given, the red clay of grief, the black clay of stubbornness going on after.

But the best things in life never come easy—

You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.

In the immortal words of Willie Stargell, trying to hit Koufax was like "trying to drink coffee with a fork.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Home wasn't built in a day.