I’m just going to keep plugging away until I find success—or an electrical socket that works. This is the secret to gaining worldly power.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It’s about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

I’ll admit that it’s not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Let your faith in the Universe deepen, purify and strengthen most on your troublesome, dark days. If you close your eyes in prayer, surrendering every problem and desire, you will find a way out without...

You matter. Your heart matters.

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not...

…I can’t make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don’t have to feel good to do it.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is...

Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

Be the Rain.I am the rain.The mountain may spit fire at the sky. . . Still the rain will fall.The mountain may quake at the world. . . Still the rain will fall.The mountain will...

If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and...

Don’t allow your problems to keep your spirit down. We all have our ups and downs in life. There is always a way out, but you must strongly believe in your ability to persevere.

It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace....

A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

C’est parce qu’on imagine simultanément tous les pas qu’on devra faire qu’on se décourage, alors qu’il s’agit de les aligner un à un. [in De la grandeur]

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...

We have to believe that our prayers, if pure and powerful can transform any catastrophic situation, regardless of its magnitude.

Be the light. Be the love. Not to one or two selectively, but to each person who crosses your path today and every day.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can...

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color. I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair....

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can…

They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by...

Sometimes we have to dig a little deeper, to reach a little higher.

Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I’ll attempt to...

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can...

Loving what you do doesn’t mean you are never going to be faced with trials. It rather means, you are highly qualified to persist, persevere and endure till the end because you are enthusiastic about...

Success is reserved for you if you persevere; it’s not deserved by you if you are indolent!

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

[…] what’s the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.Keep trying until you succeed.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you...

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept...

Live gratefully. Express it constantly. Expect abundance.

Live through it or grow from it.

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They...

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.