Quotes About Persistence

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write

What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness? Why do anything except eat and read and make love and provide for sleep that should be secure against disturbance by armed policemen? He never did find any particularly good reason. He simply went on.

Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Å'dipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

One must wait till it comes.

In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in.

Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.

I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.

Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.

When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed.

The thing with giving up is you never know whether you could have done the job.

Success is dependent on effort.

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.