Quotes About Perseverance

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

Poverty plus confidence equals pioneers. We never doubted.

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

persevering intercessor is characterized by the ability to see and internalize how God desires to bless. He or she is also an advocate for the ones who stand in need of this blessing.

When prayer is moved to the periphery of the church, it can only mean that God has, too.

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William W. Johnstone

Ki gy?z? Mi az: gy?zni? A legbiztosabb vereség a gy?zelem.

every failure is a step to success!

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.