Quotes About Persistence

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

She had died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

it the bloody-brinjal-and-bugger-all. Which is

all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for

there's no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.

sometimes we have to "live the question," not push for the answer.

He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.

his oar into water that is as thick and angry as boiling paddy.

You're always pushin, shovin Satisfied with nothing You bitch you must be gettin old

Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' " "I figured you'd be in.

Dont give up great things take time

There are so many people who've come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo. Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them, generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay. I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

But love is impossible and it goes on despite the impossible.

I haven't given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even