Quotes about Persistence

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

I stay motivated no matter what.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly.

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison

Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.

Now when his child falls and scrapes her knee, a loving father is certainly going to scoop her up in his arms, carry her into the house to treat the wound, and hold her close while she cries. That's what God does for us in our pain. But a wise father will also encourage his child to go back out and try it again, because that's the only way to learn to ride a bike.

Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results. Prayer is more than getting on our knees or clasping our hands while closing our eyes. Prayer is an attitude of operating in conjunction with God. Prayer involves exercising our authority for heavenly intervention in our earthly affairs.

let's commit to memorizing and meditating on 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.