Quotes About Perseverance

Paul Hutchens

What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications: The more papers you publish, the more rejections you receive.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend to them than inspiration

Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing.

Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier.

A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go.

Even though I've written more than a hundred short stories I always think that I will never come up with another decent one. It's agony.

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

This land does not go out of its way to provide happy endings

the pile again. A half hour later, I got

Most players who retire with 14 career home runs and a lifetime batting average of .200 will be little remembered in five years, let alone forty. But most players aren't Bob Uecker.

Faithless Israelites wander forty years in the wilderness of Sinai.

The amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have.

To become a great leader, you have to keep trying.

And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, our civilization finally lies dying in the gutter, some of us will still be looking, as the ancient Mesopotamians taught us to do, at the stars.

Paul L. Maier

It's easy 'nough to titter w'en de stew is smokin' hot,But hit's mighty ha'd to giggle w'en dey's nuffin' in de pot.

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

on his own shoulder and lumber down the aisle between thirty-foot-high

Life, I would later learn, is a raging river tumbling over jagged rocks, most of which are never seen. There are no signs warning of broken bones or broken promises or broken hearts. Some of us get knocked off our flimsy rafts. Others cling to the straps with utter desperation. Either way, the journey's end is the same. The river surges toward a roaring falls, unforgiving and unsurvivable.

I believe anybody with guts and brains who's willing to work hard can make it.

If they're still sullen and whiny when they pass nineteen, they probably always will be. Another half century of bitching and moaning about bosses and wives and how the other guys got all the luck. "Riggs. Charlie Riggs.