Quotes About Persistence

People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try to listen. People always in busy to put you down or break you down. They won't give you the courage to go ahead. They always after you and try their best to end you. But never give up. Never let yourself down. You should and must keep it in your mind.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

What can't be cured must be endured.

What a vale of misery this world is! To me it has been emphatically so. Death has pursued me incessantly ever since I was twenty-five. My path has been—how terribly true it is—through the region of his shadow. Sometimes I feel as if I could give up—as if I must give up. And then after all I rise and press on.

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

Good always triumphs over evil, even though it can take a while. Light always overcomes darkness, even though it can seem awfully dark.

I was born by the riverIn a little tentAnd just like the riverI've been running ever sinceIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Rata que debería estar muerta y no está muerta. Débil y sucia, pero no muerta, nada muerta, ahí estaba yo, vivo, debajo de un arbusto; y tenía un plan.

He shook his head violently from side to side in an attempt to drag his mind from this morass, and to imagine another, better, life, one without so many commas.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

For the next seven decades the story of Smith attending these sixty-three consecutive shows has been repeated often, including by me. The trouble is, Mexicana was performed only thirty-five times.

Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

The sun comes up. Ruth fingers the trunk of a bare tree. There's a pattern, a larvae fringe some creature tracked back and forth, drunk on whatever it ate, making writing no one can read. I want to get out of here. I want life to win, for now. I want to be a mother. We keep walking, trees and trees and sometimes a small clearing. I take no breaks. Dead leaves, dead needles, dead logs, but green everywhere. I can see the sky and I can see Ruth. Every now and again, a bird.