Quotes About Perseverance

Jonah, being a writer, is a slow learner, stubborn, self-righteous, not given to trust [ Out of the Garden ].

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve.

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.

A book is not a thing of one sitting, like a poem, but a longish thing which takes time and energy and since it takes skill, too, the first effort or maybe the second may not find a market.

Patricia Keelyn

I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all.

Damn you, you Indian bastard! You're not leaving me to tell Lily of your death. You're going to get up and walk out of here if it's the last thing I do. But

The implacable Indian had turned out to be one hell of a cantankerous patient. Besides

With grammar, it's always something.

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria. Ese era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

After this is kept up long enough, it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

The best things are the most difficult.

it is a good thing to have to endure an agonizing experience occasionally. It is good to know that we have hit bottom and survived. That makes all our daily problems seem easy by comparison.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

Aren't we all like that battling giant of the forest? Don't we manage somehow to survive the rare storms and avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let our hearts be eaten out by little beetles of worry—little beetles that could be crushed between a finger and a thumb?

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

I have asked too much, too much.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose.

Se alguém avança de maneira confiante na direção de seus sonhos e se empenha em viver a vida que imaginou, encontrará nas horas comuns um sucesso inesperado.