Quotes about Persistence

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

We insist, it seems, on living.

And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.

I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with whom one is voyaging to the North Pole.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.