Quotes About Perseverance

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

I had sent [the magazine] a batch of poems which they turned down flat. I was furious. Floss [my wife] said, 'If I were the editor of that magazine *I* would turn down what *you* sent.' So *she* picked a batch and they accepted them *all*.

the sky goes out if you should fail.

I have always associated [Al Que Quiere!] with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him. [...] I was convinced nobody in the world of poetry wanted me but I was there willing to pass the ball if anyone did want it.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage, determination, and utter unwillingness to be beaten serves, in the truest sense of the word, as an inspiration for mathematician and non-mathematician alike. The long history of mathematics provides no finer example of the triumph of the human spirit.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

People die, God endures.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

She has had a hard life, but so does every woman.

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

In writing, you must kill your darlings.