Quotes About Persistence

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

Forget it . . . I'm never

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

We must trust our process, look beyond "results.

all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.

There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Nunca se permita sentirse decepcionado. Puede esperar tener algo en un momento dado y no obtenerlo en ese momento, y esto le parecerá un fracaso. Pero si se aferra a su fe, encontrará que el fracaso es sólo aparente. Siga haciendo las cosas en la cierta manera y si no recibe lo que esperaba, recibirá algo mucho mejor que lo hará ver que el aparente fracaso fue en realidad un gran éxito.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails.