Anita Shreve Quotes

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

There's something to be said for perseverance.

I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Stay the course.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.