perseverance Quotes

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.