Quotes About Perseverance

whatever you do - his father continued - dream big, take risks, and work harder than whoever else is doing the same thing. Do you know why I've succeeded? not because of talent, I've known writers more gifted than I am. But I was driven to wring every molecule out of whatever talent I possessed. Success is not something you aspire to, you have to grab it by the throat.

There'll be people better and smarter than you, Adam. There always are. Your strength must be to want it more, and let nothing get in the way. They called Robert Kennedy ruthless. But for a few months before he died, when I joined his campaign, I knew Bobby very well, and I can tell you he was most ruthless with himself. That's how you should be.

There is no problem that cannot be solved. —NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER

Here's a simple intervention to show what a little change in your negative narrative can do. First-year college students who receive worse grades than they anticipate are highly likely to drop out. Some conclude they're just not college material, while others, who have a positive narrative, will absorb the news and decide to work harder.

Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle.

If you have two years of sobriety behind you, then take a drink, you're much more likely to keep on drinking because the mere act of taking a drink—an irrevocable decision—will make you suddenly start to discount all the information and experience you have about the value of sobriety. You'll rationalize (I can control my drinking), minimize (A few drinks won't kill me), and deny (Well, I guess I never really was an alcoholic).

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

Good. I didn't hear the four a.m. rooster alarm." "I did," Taylor said. "It went on for like ten minutes before I rebooted it." "You rebooted a rooster?" "I think so. It stopped mid-crow.

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.