Quotes About Perseverance

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

People say I'm a pain in the rear, but we surrender to people who say we are pains the rear.

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

I'm not an epileptic but you're an arsehole . I'm important. I matter. I can do anything. I'm a sexy, strong woman that happens to have epilepsy. Do you get it? I have epilepsy but it's not who I am.

How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?

life was a stone cutting and grinding...

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

I certainly admire people who do things.

However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.

Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay bank at whose edge a few unbeatable wild flowers clawed and hung on like naughty children who won't go to bed.

That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.

A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.

I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

I got back on the runway and took all of it and some of the hedge and gave the front door the heavy shoulder. This was foolish. About the only part of a California house you can't put your foot through is the front door. All it did was hurt my shoulder and make me mad.

Doctors are just people, born to sorrow, fighting the long grim fight like the rest of us.

The only salvation for a writer is to write. If there is anything good in him, it will come out.

the same broken promise of a life of ease. I

Redheads, don't jump, Tony. They hang on-and wither. (I'll Be Waiting)

My left foot felt fine. It didn't have an ache in it. So I had to kick the corner of the bed with it.

when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, and to plenty of people in any business or no business at all these days, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward. (in The Man With the Golden Typewriter).