Quotes about Perseverance

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

I talk with the authority of failure.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.