Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

She would not stop until she beat the devil.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.