Quotes About Perseverance

When you're going through hard times and God seems distant, apologetics can help you to remember that our faith is not based on emotions, but on the truth, and therefore you must hold on to it.

Any place is grand, long as you got the old do-re-mi in the grouch bag

A volte ho l'impressione che se davvero ho un talento non è di natura letteraria. Il mio è piuttosto un talento per la pura e semplice sopravvivenza. Sono sopravvissuto a tre matrimoni naufragati, alla perdita dei figli, alla guerra, alla tubercolosi, al marxismo, all'alcolismo, alla nevrosi e ad anni di scrittura da freelance. Sono troppo cocciuto e miserabile perché mi si possa far fuori, mi sa». - W.L.Gresham

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Jack or Donald marches away to glory with his knapsack on his shoulder, stepping out briskly to the tune of The Girl I left behind me. It is she who remains and suffers,-- and has the leisure to think, and brood and remember.

Count on, rest not, for hope is dead.

if these hours be dark, as indeed in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us, and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candle-light to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight...

Love, who changest all, change me nevermore! Love, who changest all, change my sorrow sore!

We can either resist a drink, or we can't. And if we can't, then we precipitate back to square one.

there's never been a day that lasts forever, just as the sun sets, it will rise at dawn for ever after…'.

The best time to stop is now, it always has been and it always will be. You've already thrown away enough of your precious time and life being miserable because of a drug, why would you want to waste another single second on it?

William R. Forstchen

If you must fight, fight to win

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

If there is a good will, there is great way.

If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!