Quotes About Persistence

When writing goes painfully, when it's hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.

Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing She thought, That's a comfort!

Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

Labor was the right word for it. You surely do labor. Like pushing a wagon loaded with cement blocks uphill, three wheels stuck. Grunting, sweating, straining like a sow to give birth as it's called.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.

I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.

Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Don't receive condemnation when you have setbacks or bad days. Just get back up, dust yourself off, and start again.

I can patiently wait for the things I want in life, trusting God to bring them in His timing.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." —Saint Francis of Assisi

Regardless of what you've been told, God doesn't give up on you when you get stuck.