Quotes About Perseverance

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Persistence is the source of great strength.

Success creates momentum for the next success.

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

The worst enemies of success are fear and doubt.

Thoughts and imaginations will fade away if you don't act on them.

To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

The only way you make it through life is to fight. You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

All of us have a story like that one - some of us more than one. It's part of life and learning. Why, if babies stopped trying to walk the first time they fell down, the whole world would be full of people who crawled.

You've got to date a lot of Volkswagens before you get to your Porsche.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor and sobbed. The worst thing about trying to get myself undepressed were the days when it seemed like I hadn't made any progress at all.

Pain is mostly mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

most things worth doing are not easy. But that does not make them not worth doing.

I don't have to bitch, because Bunny's doing enough for all of us. Clearly Miss Homemaker doesn't find hiking as easy as pie, because she's cursing in time to our footsteps, and instead of hearing left, left, I left my wife and forty-eight kids home in the kitchen in starving' condition with nothing but gingerbread left, left I hear shit, shit, these bugs are like shit, shit. . . .

It's not prettier or better than other places and it sure a shell isn't an easy place, but I know how to live here. And that counts.

You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happen, you enjoy them more than people who are always thinking about the past or the future.

Parents must understand that their children are not inferior for having to work through additional tasks during childhood. In comparison to most of their peers, such children will be working harder to enjoy stability and happiness in life. Parents will be working alongside their children toward the same end.

cannot be disproved. Therefore, in every generation they must be fought.

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now.