Quotes About Persistence

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As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.' 'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.

I think it would be vain to imagine that we could be favored without effort. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

softness overcomes hardness.

Just as a vine or shrub—no matter how often it is cut back—will keep growing to the light, the human heart—no matter how often it is cut—can reassert its impulse to love.

For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation.

How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?

If we could see ourselves from far enough away, we would seem like a colony of insects running into things repeatedly: thousands of little determined beings butting into obstacles, shaking our little heads and bodies, and running into things again.

that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

Once the first draft is done, the really tough work begins.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

If you wanna get there, just follow the sound of the drums. Things seem to just sway and move constantly.

life keeps kicking out extra points regardless of how I play it.

I'm still here, I tell myself. I'm still here.

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.