Quotes About Perseverance

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.