Quotes About Perseverance

One does one's best - Silk

Now there's something for you to think about. If you don't know that you can't do something, isn't there a remote possibility that you'll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don't know that you can't pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm's length, maybe you can.

We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.

I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

You don't have to like it, you know. All you have to do is to do it.

If that's the way we have to do it, then that's the way we'll do it.

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself

impotency; many developed

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

Try to let what is unfair teach you…what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher…you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

every failure is also a victory.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.

no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

People who're somehow burned at birth, withered or ablated way past anything like what might be fair, they either curl up in their fire, or else they rise.

Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy's goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body. His arms to the shoulders and most of the legs beneath the knee were child's play. After these areas of his body, however, the difficulty increased with the abruptness of a coastal shelf. The boy came to understand that unimaginable challenges lay ahead of him. He was six.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time.