Quotes About Perseverance

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure

rather may be cured.

JAMES 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Many more Mondays, many more games.

Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

As his grandfather said in that sage Pequot Indian manner of his, Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

Henry Morton Stanley's rescue of Dr. David Livingstone

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.

Endurance is the crowning quality…

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

I drive. That's what I do. All I do.

God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.

A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." – James Lee Burke

Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook, and start the whole thing all over again." – Preston Sturges