Quotes About Perseverance

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Resist winter as you will — the cold will come.

Any real writer — or reader — has had a papercut on the forehead at least once.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging.

No sooner do I get interested than bang! goes my sleep, and I have to stop a week or ten days, during which my ideas get all cold again.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

In writing, you either stick with it and keep revising until it's done, no matter how long it takes — or set it aside a few years until you've distanced yourself enough to get it right. The wait is just as excruciating as the work.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Paper endures everything.

A Taurus works hard… and sleeps harder.

You can't have it all, all at once... Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough.

There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice, where she successfully fought against gender discrimination and unified the liberal block of the court.

Been down so long, down don't worry me.

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.

The broken heart is broadest.

I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.