Quotes About Perseverance

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Nothing's lost forever.

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you true north from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp, what's the use of knowing true north?

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

There are always distractions if you allow them.

Andujar, Joaquin, 183 Anheuser-Busch, 181–82 Animal Rescue

remembering what she said about love trying to live with what I can't rise above.

Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

I smile sadly, in light of what came next to think that I told her If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve she made me a liar, too-- the woman who dug the hole I've been trying to write myself out of ever since

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

It's funny. You love something and one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your loving. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing.

It can't always be a honeymoon

Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

There's no abiding success without commitment.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The