Quotes About Perseverance

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

Valley's don't last forever... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Valleys don't last forever. Neither did the mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

Wildlife can absorb adversity that would destroy a human without a blink.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

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

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

Don't Let That Horse . . ." from A Coney Island of the Mind. Don't let that horse eat that violin cried Chagall's mother But he kept right on painting And became famous And kept on painting The Horse With Violin In Mouth And when he finally finished it he jumped up upon the horse and rode away waving the violin And then with a low bow gave it to the first naked nude he ran across And there were no strings attached

I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away.

fortaleza y el ingenio (bi? y m?tis), representadas respectivamente por Aquiles y Ulises (u Odiseo);

Aquí, ya ves, hay que correr todo lo posible para quedarte en el mismo sitio. Si quieres ir a algún sitio, debes correr al menos dos veces más rápido. Lewis Carroll, Alicia a través del espejo (monólogo de la reina roja)

Survival must be the highest objective; otherwise nothing could be achieved.