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Ray Bradbury2 quotes
I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. — Ray Bradbury · 2002The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so. — Ray Bradbury · 2002Abraham Lincoln1 quote
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln · 1839Angela Davis1 quote
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis · 2014Apostle Paul1 quote
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. — Apostle Paul · 56Dory1 quote
When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming. — Dory · 2003Ernest Hemingway1 quote
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Francis Drake1 quote
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. — Francis Drake · 1587Frank Abagnale1 quote
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse. — Frank Abagnale · 2002Harriet Beecher Stowe1 quote
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1869Homer1 quote
Have patience, heart. Once you endured worse than this. — Homer · 700 BCJohn Quincy Adams1 quote
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. — John Quincy Adams · 1802Phoebe Cary1 quote
And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip." — Phoebe Cary · 1870Samuel Beckett1 quote
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett · 1989T.H. Huxley1 quote
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — T.H. Huxley · 1870William Ernest Henley1 quote
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have no winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley · 1888William Shakespeare1 quote
Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare · 1606William Styron1 quote
I will write until my knuckles are worn and my brain bewildered, but I will write on and on. — William Styron · 1951