Quotes About Persistence

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency...

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? The world cannot be changed, said Gloria. The world is what the world is and has forever been. No, said Leo Matienne softly, I will not believe that. For here is Peter standing before us, asking us to make it something different.

Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left of me, there's always somebody much more talented than I am. And what I figured out is they're not willing to go through the rejection, which is enormous, and then the compromise that comes with, you know, editing your work. And so I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be 'talented'; I just had to be persistent, and that that was something I could control. The persistence.

I kept on going over and over the list in my head. I memorized it the same way I had memorized the list of ten things about my mama. I memorized it so if I didn't find him, I would have some part

How long are you supposed to wait? That was another question that Raymie wished she had asked Mrs. Borkowski. How long should you wait, and when should you stop waiting?

If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path." —HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS

There is only one way to deal with a goat.

And he has tried to swim that stream, And he swam on both strong and steady, But the river was wide and strength did fail, And never more he'll see his Annie. And woe betide the willow wan, And woe betide the bush and briar, For they broke beneath her true love's hand, When strength did fail and limbs did tire.

Quoique dise la vieille espérance. Forçons les portes du doute

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

In every race after that, I finished in the top three. All through 1917 I raked in prize money with my clawed feet.

That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then.

I could persevere and overcome all odds. I didn't want to feel like a quitter on this relationship, or anything else.

Para alcanzar el éxito se requieren dos cualidades: el compromiso y la autodisciplina».

I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times.

Gylf, you can practice forever and still never fly if you do not really believe you can.

Dream on, you addle-brained idiot bird.

With very good reason, my favorite animal is the turtle.

And I know that when you get hurt, your first instinct is to run. But I also realized something else. No one has ever followed you when you did run. But I'm going to follow, and I'm going to keep following until you realize that you can trust me. I'm not going to let you run away from something that could be so great. That is so great. Marty, I love you. - Nate

My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read how to write books as they may make the process a bit quicker.

The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.

It never occurred to her to give up.