Quotes About Persistence

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.

That was nothing. I've talked myself out of much worse.

Even I got turned down by girls, and when it happened, I dusted off my ego and moved on.

Rose. It won't get me anywhere with you." "Nothing will get you anywhere with me," I exclaimed. "I don't know about that.

I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.

I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

I apparently didn't believe in sleep, either, because I didn't get much of it that night.

In a note to a West Point classmate, Eisenhower wrote, "There is no use denying that at times discouragement has piled on top of discouragement.

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Lincoln had inelegantly called "the tired spot that can't be got at.

Eisenhower wrote his own son at West Point: "I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant [who] delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.

Mount up and continue," Patton told his armor crews. "Don't stop except for gas." Omar

If you can't strive for perfection...just strive.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it's just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working.

I am beginning to think that the word "no," in his mind, registers as, Well, go ahead and do whatever you want to do. He backed straight away, pulling, and the collar slipped over his head. I tried to grab him by the scruff of the neck, but he evaded me and leapt back onto the bed, and burrowed under the blanket till he was just a big, growling lump. He is an outside dog, he rolls in mule manure. It wasn't that I would have to change the bed. I might have to burn it.

Does he bite?" the driver asked. "He even bites me," I said. He picked a fight with whatever the world brought him, and that day it happened to be a Lincoln. I don't think he would have hurt the driver, but he sure would have messed up a nice suit. The next week he did it again, and the next.

Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.

One of the most important functionalities is durability: the capacity to thrive over a long time without dependence on resource-consuming maintenance regimes.