Quotes About Perseverance

We had expected to take losses," Colonel John Kane said, "but I never will forget those big Libs going down like flies." His radio operator, Ray Hubbard, added, "I looked through the open bomb-bay doors and could see flames from exploding gas tanks shooting right up into us. The fire wrapped us up. I looked out of the side windows and saw the others flying through smoke and flames. It was flying through hell...I guess we'll go straight to heaven when we die. We've had our purgatory.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let you die

I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.

I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I couldn't sleep I learned to write I learned to write what might be read on nights like this by one like me

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

I will starve till prophets find me, I will bleed till angels bind me, Still I sing till churches blind me, Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeat You live your life As if it's real

I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.