Quotes About Perseverance

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847

When I think about what my future holds, it is a bit like looking into the sun. I flinch away, or I don't and my eyes get burned down a bit, like candles, and then I can't see for a while.

Just in case the letter doesn't get all the way to you, I gave it some wings so it could fly the rest of the way.

When there is nothing to do you do what little there is. What little is left.

One wants the struggle. One shouldn't permit it to be removed.

You really can do all things through Christ who gives you strength—and He will give you strength.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Keep hope alive!

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

I ain't got time to bleed