Quotes About Perseverance

You carry the symbol of your frustration into eternity.

Well, a man cant keep on going ashore anywhere, let alone Europe, all his life without getting ravaged now and then." "Good God," Monckton said. "I should hope not.

You see, if only people didn't refuse quick and hard to think about next Monday, Virtue wouldn't have such a hard and thankless time of it.

But it seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

You see, if only people didn't refuse quick and hard to think about next Monday, Virtue wouldn't have such a hard and thankless time of it.

Le diré que todo el mundo puede cometer un error, pero que no todos saben salir de él sin pérdidas; que no todo el mundo puede comerse sus errores: eso es lo que le voy a decir.

We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam.

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure.

The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.

That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Times is always hard for some, the old man observed.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

You need to learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work

And the Yak, they can afford to move so fucking slow, man, they'll wait years and years. Give you a whole life, just so you'll have more to lose when they come and take it away. Patient like a spider. Zen spiders.

Opportunities to do very badly were manifold. You avoided them. The major part in any success.

The whole industry wobbles along like a shopping cart with a missing wheel. You can only keep it moving if you lean on it a certain way and keep pushing, but if you stop, it tips over.

Pretty soon the crash would come on, and before then she'd have to figure out a way to get back to the hotel, and suddenly it seemed like everything was too complicated, too many things to do, angles to figure, and that was the crash, when you had to start worrying about putting the day side together again.

And then you pushed through into a dim space inhabited by a faintly confusing sense of the half-dozen other bars that had tried and failed in the same room under different managements.

You dead awhile there, mon." "It happens," he said. "I'm getting used to it." "You dealin' wi' th' darkness, mon." "Only game in town, it looks like." "Jah love, Case

I imagine you're actually rather good at what you do, in spite of certain disadvantages. Disadvantage and peculiar competence can go hand in hand, I find.

Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin. James: What is? Annie: Giving up.

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?

Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.