Quotes about Perseverance

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

I have the love and blessings of Indians and my family and I have faith in my own hard work and training. That is all I need.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'