Quotes About Persistence

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.

The bad news is that your inner saboteur never goes away. The good news is that it can be managed.

You have to do normal things or they don't go away. You have to reassure them. Or they just stand there staring at you, as if you're a car-crash, or pornography.

They say a heart breaks, but it doesn't. It goes on working, mute and stubborn as a mule.

The point of the journey is not to arrive.

When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I'm still doing my own thing, it's because I haven't forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.

You do not retreat from a road-block; you make your way around it, or look for another route to where you are going. And you learn to zigzag ... Take a different route, albeit a longer one.

I have made no attempt at chronology. My writing hasn't changed much over the years. That's because I haven't changed. I am still the impractical dreamer that I was sixty years ago, when I decided that writing would be my vocation and my profession. I do not suffer from writer's block. I have only to sit down at my desk for the words to come tumbling on to my writing pad. And if an ant moves across my desk, I shall record its transit.

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. If your way be long, let your heart be strong, So keep right on round the bend.'   By

Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross— A mountain to pass— Now we've four more miles to go!   The

All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough

Every problem has a solution hidden away somewhere, and if only you look hard enough you will find

jeweller left his shop and ran after us. So did Rocky.

the best ones are often the most difficult to find. But

Odd, how some little incident, some snatch of conversation comes back to one again and again in the most unlikely places.