Quotes About Perseverance

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

The most successful people in the world are those who have the ability to perceive what is possible even when it looks impossible. They look beyond the obstacle blocking their success and they recognize that through perseverance, they will ultimately be victorious.

Don't major on the fall, major on getting up!

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

Just because I'd kicked junk, after all, did not mean I'd kicked being a junkie. And junkies lie. It's their primary addition.

Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have any idea what the word even meant.

As far as I could tell, life was nothing but a forced march down a mined highway. Even if you did everything you were supposed to do, sooner of later if was your turn to step on a claymore.

When life becomes sub-human, sub-humans come alive.

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

In a garden, things grow . . . but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.

He's like a flower doing its best on an asteroid, naked to so many cosmic terrors.

El amanecer se acerca con toda su luz de oro, después de caminar varios minutos contra el viento seco

Cuando empezó a meterse de cabeza en la revolución, yo entendí lo que nos esperaba para siempre

The trick of life," she said, "is that you can't hold the pain for too long. The magic, either.

Every woman should have pearls," Mom said, "to remind ourselves that grit under pressure becomes beauty.

seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a

JUDGE. And before we start I want you all to realize that there's no problem too big to solve. Into every life a little rain must fall. Every cloud must have a silver lining, and it is always darkest before the dawn. LIZ. Well, now that we've had the weather report, let's get on with the case.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.