Quotes About Perseverance

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.

I vaig começar a caminar altra vegada, a desfer camí.

The only way to do it is to do it.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Sabía que lo esencial en esos casos era vencer la timidez; ser tajante y mostrarse decidida. Antes de llegar hasta allí yo misma me había hecho un lavado de cerebro para mentalizarme. Nada de tener miedo. Pero si el miedo apuntaba, había que considerar que también el miedo es un derivado de la esperanza; una especie de esperanza al revés. Todo era cuestión de enderezarla. (P. 64)

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

In the midst of death's relentless power, I yet among the living stand

You came pretty late to my party— you'd better be able to dance until dawn

My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on.

Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned." Only thirty percent of published books turn a profit, so we can rule out material motivation.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

Blue Plate Special was the most difficult book I've ever written, as well as the easiest. The material was all there. I just had to find the thread, weave it through, and tie it together at the end. No big deal. Ha! It was agony a lot of the time. Ecstasy the rest of the time. Such a roller coaster. I kept vacillating between "I can't do this, it's too hard" and "God, this is fun.

What's the point of flinching? Whatever is coming comes anyway.

Huonokin teksti on aina parempi kuin ei tekstiä ollenkaan. Huono teksti on lähtökohta, mutta jos teksti puuttuu, ei ole mitään.

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.