All Quotes By Tag: Perseverance

“If you can quit, then quit. If you can’t quit, you’re a writer.”

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.”(“The Castle”)”

“There’s sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren’t being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.”

“When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else’s imperfect knowledge.”

“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”

“Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”

“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.”

“Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.”

“Guidance, like all God’s acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God’s promise; this is how good he is.”

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable”

“So since I’m still here livin’,I guess I will live on.I could’ve died for love–But for livin’ I was born.”

“Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry–I’ll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.”

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”