Quotes about Persistence

You must tell yourself, "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it."

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.