Quotes About Perseverance

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

you can't talk about death without celebrating life. How amid the devastation, many still manage to stay erect in a world that's slumping around them. How despite the bloodshed, some manage, heroically, not only to push on but also to push back. How in death there is love.

If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," he told me. If, not when.

They've seen too much to be children.

People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.

Strength in someone is not defined by the way they fall down, but the way they get up

Everything shall be okay in the end. If it is not okay, then it is not the end

What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Pablo Picasso said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

They learned to say: "For Christ's sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. But what does it matter? The Church is spreading; believers are multiplying on every side, springing up an hundred-fold from the seed of the martyrs' blood; the name of our Lord is being magnified. We will gladly suffer, therefore, bearing witness to the truth.

Christ and we against the world;" "Christ in the world's power, and we left alone:" such, in brief, was the difference between the two sifting seasons. The results of the sifting process were correspondingly diverse. In the one case, it separated between the sincere and the insincere; in the other, it discovered weakness even in the sincere.

The lesson on prayer taught by Christ, in answer to request, consists of two parts, in one of which thoughts and words are put into the mouths of immature disciples, while the other provides aids to faith in God as the answerer of prayer. There is first a form of prayer, and then an argument enforcing perseverance in prayer.

When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.

the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.

My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished.

You could mistake your ability to go this far for strength. So you go on. Strength is admirable, after all, and you are ashamed of everything else about yourself. This endurance at least — this you can admire.

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

I needed to teach writing students to hold on—to themselves, to what matters to them, to the present, the past, the future. And to the country. And to do so with what they write. We won't know when the world will end. If it ever does, we will be better served when it does by having done the work we can do.

The sacrifice is usually chained to the rock. She does not usually dance out to meet her monster.