Quotes About Perseverance

Only while on a murder case did he drink fast-food coffee. It was so associated in his mind with the teamwork, the long hours, the standing in cold, damp fields, that his heart raced every time he smelt industrial coffee and wet cardboard.

I was hanged for living alone," said Ruth. It was rare, almost unheard of, that she quoted her own poem, but they heard it now. "For having a weedy farm in my own name / And a surefire cure for warts.

Or worse, dwell in it. Take up residence in the tragedies, the pain. The hurt. To make a home in hell.

Sometimes the only way up is down.

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

Some cracks let the light in. Some let the darkness out.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power." The words

what often distinguished great people of the arts wasn't genius, but perseverance.

Emily Carr. And the ridicule she'd endured at the hands of gallery owners, critics, a public too afraid to go where she wanted to take them.

Ça va bien aller.

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I me memorize a lot of poetry, too, so I'l have something to be saying to myself on long walks. A poem to repeat, either aloud or silently, will help you over a hill or on a long mile as surely as a neighbour who stops his team and gives you a lift.

That's the way to live, Chloe. Savor the good times, stay strong through the bad ones.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

1.this has been going on since moby dick was a minnow 2.Don't stand between a dog and a fire hydrant

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

I want to thank the many, many readers who have been so supportive of me all these years. There were a few years, because of the economy, when I had to put off writing as I traveled around for my roofing job (5am - 7pm of travel and roofing took a big chunk out of my brain) and I'm grateful that my readers have been understanding about my situation when I explained it to them. They've consistently emailed me encouraging words, telling me they'd wait for my next books.

If what we worship fail us, still the fire Burns on, and it is much to have believed.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak, If you've once found the way you've achieved the grand stroke.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.