Quotes About Perseverance

There is neither magic nor master's eye. Only a great deal of love and a great deal of work.

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

I might swing from branch to branch, but always in the same tree.

Patience and time do more than force and rage.

It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

You're only as successful as the last book you published, and you're only as good as the next book you're writing. So shut up and write.

The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.

A strong man sails by ash breeze!

Mother did not answer. She was still gazing up at the sky. After a while she said, I made up a sort of saying for myself, Nat. I will lift up my eyes unto the stars. Sometimes, if you look at the stars long enough, it helps. It shrinks your day-by-day troubles down to size. She smiled. 'We'd better go back. Granny and Father will be wondering where we are.

Bowditch Ledge astern to the north of them .. .

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.

He didn't know he had only the shell of the woman he loved. It didn't matter. The shell was enough.

The path to success is a thorny one, and the way is steep. There are many pitfalls. It is a fool who does not take advantage of a helping hand when it is offered.

Time is our friend in trouble," she said, "because it tells us that the sorrow cannot last for ever.

J'ai cru que votre amour allait finir son cours. Je connais mon erreur, et vous aimez toujours.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

I'd planned to die at thirty, and then I'd push it on ten years, forty, and then fifty, You always push it on. And then you go on and on and on. It's difficult. Too much trouble. I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, 'Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice.' So I sat down on the ground. But it was so cold I got up. Oh yes, I used to try to imagine death, but I always come up against a wall.

I was thinking, 'I'm nineteen and I've got to go on living and living and living.

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.

Nous ne commençons à prouver quelque chose qu'en persévérant jusque dans un âge où déjà nous sommes contraints à l'économie.

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.