Anne Lamott Quotes

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

While you're in the moment of anything that's confusing in your life, you're in the moment, and you have to figure it out. You can go up or down. And I just kept working on the higher road, and trying. I got very involved with medication.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

It's never easy to set up any business, but it comes back to determination and drive and the love of what you do!

I never fight, except against difficulties.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.