Quotes About Perseverance

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go. Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat.

Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.

When one follows the path with heart, one often bleeds. (But what is the alternative—a cauterized core?)

Nothing will go wrong,Micheal said soothingly. Me and you? We've been through to much together. And your too unpleasant to die.Too bossy.God will keep you down here for a while until you learn your lesson and start learning to work and play well with others. Now your talking.Will you go with me a week from Friday when I get my biopsy? Wild horses and an evil head nurse with rubber gloves couldn't keep me away. Now your just being gross.

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

Well, if you ever decide to try, just concentrate. And don't let anyone tell you you can't do it. -Mrs Peachtree

It doesn't matter,' Monsieur Ibrahim said. 'Your love for her belongs to you. It is yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, that's all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!

C'è sempre una soluzione [...]

În ziua aceea, ea dobândi dou? certitudini definitive: el o enerva la culme ÅŸi, dac? va putea, nu-l va p?r?si niciodat?.

plus je peinais, plus je prenais conscience de mon souffle, de mon timbre, de la durée des notes, de l'inflexion des phrases, des accents, des tenues, des retenues, des ornements et des appoggiatures.

jest jeszcze przeszkoda psychiczna: nie mam woli. - Nieprawda. Masz du?o woli. - Tak? - Tak, znajdujesz tysiÄ…c powodów, ?eby unikn?? tego, co postanowiÅ'eÅ›. W rzeczywistoÅ›ci masz blokadÄ™ woli, ale to zÅ'a wola. Szkoda, bo Å›cie?ka, którÄ… mo?na wej?? na szczyt, jest tÄ… samÄ…, którÄ… siÄ™ z niego schodzi.

Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód. - WÅ'aÅ›nie. Nie chcÄ™ triumfowa?, chcÄ™ ?y?. - Jasne. Å»ycie nie jest ani grÄ…, ani meczem, bo gdyby tak byÅ'o, byliby tacy, co wygrali.

Fiecare pas oferea o victorie. Fiecare sforÅ£are anunÅ£a o înfrângere.

Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

The individual act of will is the strongest, most transcendent part of us. To look upon something with our deepest overriding passions, whether it be rage, grief, hope or love, and yet recognise a greater need or goal, and to say, "I will do this" or "I will not do that", no matter what the personal cost, is a triumph of the spirit. The exercise of the will is the art of humans in the state of being.' --

And I knew it was true, that my words were made of stones, that they would last and I would climb them.

Martyrdom was a hard habit to break.

trying his best to discourage them,

Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening.

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!" My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.

What's fascinating about this list is that ten people with a a slew of medals among them decided that the two most important determinants of mental toughness - believing you can achieve a goal and having the ability to pick yourself up after you fail - have nothing whatsoever to do with performance and everything to do with persevering through doubt, disappointment, and other forms of discomfort.

Even the clearest skies become cloudy.

Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.

Hell of a thing." Bad Jacket shook his head. "He survives that warehouse fire only to fall down a flight of stairs.