Quotes About Perseverance

Si la vida fuera siempre fácil, sería insípida

A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

Does he make things happen, or does he make excuses?

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.