Quotes About Perseverance

Libra mi cuello de la espada. Y mi vida de las garras del perro.

And maybe that's the best we can do in this world, he thinks as he gets up to resume watering the flowers—tend to the garden and maintain the hope of a God. Against all evidence to the contrary.

La speranza non muore in modo rapido e pulito, come un ramo che si spezza sotto il peso di una nevicata. Appassisce lentamente come una pianta non annaffiata.

You don't let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you out, you let them know that they've been in a fight, you give them something to remember you by every time they look in a mirror.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Fail often, fail fast

The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can't do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can't, so you don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

It's only the fool who, because he's fallen once from grace, believes he should never have tried to be in the state of grace to begin with.

After three weeks of constant bobbing and weaving, constant trouble, constant worry, my final week in Guerrera would be calm and serene.

In his journals Emerson wrote, "To every reproach I know but one answer, namely, to go again to my work. 'But you neglect your relations.' Too true, then I will work the harder. 'But you have no genius.' Yes, then I will work the harder. 'But you have detached yourself from people: you must regain some positive relation.' Yes, I will work the harder.

Because of multiple drafts I have been accused of self-discipline. Really I am self-indulgent, I cherish revising so much.

Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.

O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

If you want to do amazing things with your life.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.