Quotes About Perseverance

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.

man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.

Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive if you observe rules: just hang on by fingernails...and never look down.

He'd been wrong to tell the freaked-out teenager that it would all get better, because actually it didn't. It just faded to a deep held chord, a pedal-organ drone behind the normal noise of life, a thing that you forgot about and thought you'd put away forever, but it was still there. It was still here. He

Delightfully, however, even phrases of world-ending awesome fury, spoken through a split lip, were quite funny.

Though I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

He says we are not forsaken. For while I wonder for what we live and struggle and die, for while I wonder what keeps us living and struggling, men are sent to minister to the blind ... Who gives, at this one hour, a friend to make darkness light before me?

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

As she fell, she was reminded of that line from one of Douglas Adams' books, where he described flying as the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Valkyrie rushed towards the ground, and missed splendidly.

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

I said to myself – wait for me in hell, I'll come to you.

The line from psychologists is, if you've seen it before, it hasn't killed you yet.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

And sometimes in life, that's all you ever need. A crisp but subtle line.

My parents were typical of many who drilled into me at an early age that because you are black, you have to be twice as good to get half as much. Unspoken in that advice is that whites are presumed competent until they prove the contrary. Blacks are assumed to be mediocre and certainly no intellectual match for whites until their skills and accomplishments gain them an often-reluctant acceptance.

It will be very hard. You'll make a million mistakes, and you'll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won't be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.