Quotes About Persistence

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you.

some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.

I am walking forever on the path from the border to base camp. It is taking a long time, and I know it will take even longer to get back. There is no one with me. I am all by myself. The trees are not trees the birds are not birds and I am not me but just something that has been walking for a very long time…

Writing fiction is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces turned upside down.

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Practice, practice, practice writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

One key to student success: Learning requires effort and study.

What I offer in this book are stories of hanging in, the practice-based evidence from working with our most challenging students,

Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered] 'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition. Concentrate everything you know, everything you can summon, to accomplish this one desire. But remember: Choose something you can't do.