Quotes About Perseverance

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. —Henry Ford

But after a little while I got used to the tedium, understanding that these parts of my work were as essential to the arabesques of the final pattern as the rest bars are to a symphony.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.

As I play the game of life I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Whatever gets you through the night. It's alright. It's alright.

During my eighteen years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. —MICKEY MANTLE I

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.

Lenore Coffee

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It was kicking butt! What

The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.