204 quotes found
“A true philosopher must never give up.”
“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.”
“Never, never, never give in!”
“Being alive is sign of strength!”
“I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again”
“First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how.”
“Where are we going? Its not an issue of here or there. And if you ever feel you cant take another step, imagine how you might feel to arrive, if not wiser, a little more aware how to inhabit the mi...”
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")”
“There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twe...”
“Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!”
“Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere.”
“Pray for strength to preserve.”
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”
“Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”
“I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, Ill never ask anything of Him again; but, on the contrary, He shall hear oftener from me than ever, and I will love God the better, and love p...”
“Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.”
“We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”
“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded ...”
“Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you d...”
“It is silly to think they all achieved it "just like that". nothing in life is so easy, that is a fact.Behind the scenes were tears and pain,they stumbled and fell but got up again. They heard a vo...”