Quotes About Perseverance

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

You can't see how far I've come because your still waiting to see how far I'll get

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found--even in the middle of a hurricane--if you are willing to look.

When people meet you, I guarantee they're not thinking, There goes a divorced woman. They may see a tired woman, a hurt woman. But divorce isn't a banner or a badge you carry. It's not who you are; it's just a piece of your story. And it's not where the story ends... This is not your defining. It is your re fining.

Her jaw set, she passed him, going to the high

Josephine wasn't much for praying . It had never done her any good.

God's grip never slips.

I know I let you down before. I know I hurt you, and I'll have to earn back your trust. I'll be as patient as I need to be, only please let me prove it to you. Let me prove that I'm here to stay. I've never wanted anything so badly in my whole life.

Healthy couples can weather brutal storms and come out stronger on the other side. This is how relationships grow and deepen. 

They fought to smile through the lines and the mud and the long hours, dancing under the stars and under the watchful eyes of their government, an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.

nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. "Nothing any good isn't hard.

It may be truly said of her that —'Strength is born In the deep silence of long suffering hearts, Not amidst joy.

for Columbia University.