Quotes About Perseverance

The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

Excellence does not come easy for quickly- An Excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered] 'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition. Concentrate everything you know, everything you can summon, to accomplish this one desire. But remember: Choose something you can't do.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Attitude allows you to see the possibilities when opportunity strikes -- because it often shows up in the form of adversity. How well do you spot opportunity?

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Ambition is the mainspring of life, but we must keep it wound up! Self-confidence is the balance wheel which keeps ambition moving at an even momentum. Enthusiasm is the oil with which we keep the human machine greased and in smooth running order. The well-organized, capable, and productive man is AMBITIOUS, ENTHUSIASTIC, and possesses plenty of SELF-CONFIDENCE. Without these, success is uncertain, if not impossible.

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is "challenge

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb

I haven't got a lot of patience.

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.

One good idea could cost you thousands of your days, but it's just time you'd be spending anyways

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Sticky seat cushions, talkative teens, annoying big screen commercials—it's all worth enduring for those occasional moments of revelation.

Bad days come to an end.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)