Quotes About Perseverance

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

the greatest blessing can come wrapped up in the worst trouble

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Yes, we might've had our problems, but if you were that unhappy, then you should've left me. You don't seek solace in the arms of another man. You don't go to the other side, hoping the grass is greener. You water the lawn you have!

I want to know how I can break down that wall and prove to you that I'm the man for you and figure out what we need to do to go to the next level.

If you don't have strength, read Psalm 73:26. If you need help with forgiveness, try Acts 3:19. If you need to see a way out of no way, try First Corinthians 10:13.

keep telling you I'm just trying to get my life together and then I'll be able to buy you," he said, stroking her hair.

Polypharmacology and curmudgeonliness were keeping her alive.

I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

So I didn't like it, and I either had to lump it or bow out. I tossed a coin: heads I stick, tails I quit. It landed tails, but I had to veto it because I had already talked to Orrie Cather and he was coming at noon, and I had left messages for Fred Durkin and Saul Panzer. I tossed again, tails again. I tossed once more and it was heads, which settled it. I had to stick.

Confound it." He sighed clear down. "I was going to finish that book this evening. Now this infernal mishmash.

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

A man named Olin Miller has said, "Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

I discovered that I was shivering, decided to stop, and did.

He's the kind that lets out all his sail and then puffs to make his own wind.

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed