Quotes by Authors - Page 99

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
Louis L'Amour
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
Ernest Hemingway
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.
Joe David Bellamy
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Geraldine Jewsbury
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.
Lily Pincus
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.
Anne Lamott
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
Judith Rossner
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.
Michelle Kwan
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
People can bear anything.
Philip Slater
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
Pietro Aretino
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Samuel Fessenden
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.
Robert J. Donovan
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
It helps I think to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith to endure to help each other when we stumble or tire to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
He conquers who endures.
Anonymous
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
First there are those who are winners and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
Paul William
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
Winston Churchill
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
Darrell Royal
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
Lisa M. Amos
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
Louis L'Amour
Don't leave before the miracle happens!
Anonymous
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
Sir Frederick Treves
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B.C. Forbes
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Yogi Berra
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Anonymous
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.
Anonymous
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Douglas V. Steere
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
Anonymous
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
Anne Shannon Monroe
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
Yogi Berra
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Anonymous
Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.
Lewis E Presnall
Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd
It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.
Anonymous
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.
Etty Hillesum
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon