Quotes About Perseverance

Okay, son. All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.

The very idea of wagon travel across the plains might have been indefinitely delayed had it not been for Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, a dreamy but persistent evangelist from the Finger Lakes of New York, who in 1836 became the first white woman to cross the Rockies. Narcissa Whitman is largely forgotten today, but her impact on American history was enormous, and for a time she was one of the most famous women in antebellum America.

Persistence is a drug that delivers strength, but it also dulls our sense of reality. My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

This became our creed, almost a religious faith. Nobody knows and we would have to figure everything out ourselves

Now I knew a little bit more about how the pioneers felt as they embarked for the West. It was my jumping-off time and I was getting jacked around by the outfitters. •

The endurance required should have been too much for us, but across these Nebraska plains endurance just begat more endurance.

Renee to show to the girls at the factory. When everything

Ellie understood the need to run and start over. She'd felt that way a few weeks ago herself. But her ties to Crooked Creek ran deep, and she'd finally decided she couldn't run far enough to escape her past. She had to stay and face it

Nella vita non bisogna mai rassegnarsi, arrendersi alla mediocrità, bensì uscire da quella "zona grigia" in cui tutto è abitudine e rassegnazione passiva, bisogna coltivare il coraggio di ribellarsi

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

I do not boast the historical fact of belonging to a human race that has suffered a lot as some kind of medal, nor have I ever tried to derive moral advantages or reparations.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia

Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but

Calculo, como si fuera informe de gobierno, que he publicado unos 60 mil dibujos en 60 años, y si contara todos los que he hecho, dibujo por dibujo, paso de los cien mil fácilmente.

No sacrifice is too big; no action is too low if it leads you to defeat your enemy.

When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn't do something "because you're a girl." In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I'd run out and try to do it.

Come, come, whoever you are . . . Come, even if you have broken your vows A hundred times, Come, come again, come. —RUMI

Growth is a perpetual process that continues throughout our lives. And challenging ourselves is the foundation upon which growth is enhanced.