Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Without patience, there can be no genius

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.

Persistence pays off.

Just got to keep going out there and keep swinging. That's all I can really do. Getting work in, doing everything I can to get ready for the game.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.

Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.