Quotes About Persistence

The key to following God was to stay on the road and off the shoulders.

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!

Work like everything depends on you, then pray like everything depends on God.

But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.

Life may seem overwhelming! Only if you push through everything that is overwhelming you can see the dream that had came true.

That admirable woman thought so humbly of her own potboiling that to hear it stigmatised by a critic of Stoker's mental powers as rubbishy stuff didn't depress her in the least. If she could have made it more rubbishy, and so sold more thousands of copies than she did, she would willingly have done so, but the artist in her, on whose existence George Knox and Adrian always insisted, kept her standard up, firmly if spasmodically.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

Forever the dream is in the mind, realization in the hands.

no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution to my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do it.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Through All That Happens As you unfold as an artist, just keep on, quietly and earnestly, growing through all that happens to you. You cannot disrupt this process more violently than by looking outside yourself for answers that may only be found by attending to your innermost feeling. Paris, February 17, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet

Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

She should remember what Flaubert said - 'Le génie, c'est travailler tous les jours!

with Authorzilla.

And miles to go before I sleep . . .

Hiya... Sorry, it you're selling something, I'm skint. And if you're selling religion, I'm an atheist. The resident God-botherer is out. So, there's nothing for you here.

You don't get to make Westerns every day.