Quotes About Persistence

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

Ali ?ovjek nije stvoren za poraze - re?e. - ?ovjek može propasti ali ne može biti poražen.

Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.

For women and men, for alcoholics and non-alcoholics, spirituality is one of those realities that we have only so long as we seek it; as soon as we stop seeking, we stop finding; as soon as we think we've got it, we've most certainly lost it.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth

Difficulties are just things to overcome.

The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through. We'll

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything.