Quotes About Perseverance

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something. They learn and move on. Most quit, and a few like you fight.

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

Unfortunately the main reason most people are not rich is because they are terrified of losing. Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Žmon?s yra dviej? r?ši?. Vieni pasiduoda sunkumams ir eina pasroviui, kiti supyksta ir ima priešintis savo vargams.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent

pumpkin-sized potholes

As Nagle spiraled deeper into alcoholism and resentment, Chatterton managed much of his friend's business, so that the Seeker could remain viable.

If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. —  If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss

When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.

Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.

followed – even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar

Call it the courage of an insignificant goat who has survived.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

Well, kid, Aahz said, sweeping me with an appraising stare, it looks like we're stuck with each other. The setup isn't ideal, but it's what we've got. Time to bite the bullet and play with the cards we're dealt. You do know what cards are, don't you? Of course, I said, slightly wounded. Good. What's a bullet?

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax

There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight them."19

quoted General William T. Sherman that "every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster." And I concluded with General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's warning that "no matter how a war starts, it ends in mud. It has to be slugged out—there are no trick solutions or cheap shortcuts." We

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder's mask.