#persist

If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment-still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to this cup, I will not tear myself from it until I've drunk it all! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#death #horror #life #persistence #youth

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#effort #ethnic #ethnic groups #every #groups

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. ↗

— Richard Ford

#done #ever #except #i #married

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#changes #good #men #persist #scene

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#only #over #persist #shows #start

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#goals #life #mountain #path #perseverance

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ↗

— Greg Kincaind

#endurance #inspirational #persistence #resilience #courage

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#persistence #change