Quotes About Persistence

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Trong nhi?u n?m ròng rã, chúng ta c? tìm h?nh phúc, và nhi?u l?n t??ng ?ã ??t ???c nó ?? h??ng m?t cách lâu b?n. Nh?ng l?n nào ta c?ng th?t v?ng. Sau ?ó, ta l?i ti?p t?c ch?y theo ?o ?nh ?ó nh? tr??c.

It's a crazy kind of schedule but five or six years ago, I had an idea for a book and wrote it rather quickly. All of a sudden I found that two books a year, spring and fall, was something I could reasonably do. I'm always chasing the next story.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

Energy, even like the biblical grain of mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait.

When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. (Kitchen, 103)

Yet at all costs I had to keep my hands and body and mind moving. Doing that, I hoped, albeit listlessly, would somehow, someday, lead to a breakthrough. There was no guarantee, but I would try to endure, no matter what, until it came.

When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. "But soon, it becomes a clear stream, whose flow conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.

We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

Our lives may be warped, but we live them all the same. One day to the next.

Fürchte die Zeit nicht, geh einfach immer weiter. So weit, bis du das Gefühl hast, angekommen zu sein.

Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we're like ghosts, the two of us, even though we're not supposed to exist, we are alive." I

The only thing to do was to work steadily, humbly, and carefully, without trying to complicate things or make them other than what they were.

Ogni notte ha in serbo molte sorprese, e io cerco di non uscirne mai sconfitta, qualsiasi cosa accada [...]

From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a gloomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

By some the harbor ne'er is won, Despite the journey well begun; The storm besets, and ruin lies Where yesterday were fairest skies.

It's always difficult when going from one field to another especially when you're the first person to make the jump and when you've had so much success in that first field. I got a lot of pushback but I kept going.

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.