Quotes About Perseverance

Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.

Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Y en cuanto a nosotros, seguiremos luchando en las montañas como guerrillas si perdemos Kandahar, y si alcanzamos el martirio, habremos obtenido una victoria.» Estoy empezando a cansarme de todo esto, pero empiezo a comprenderlo. La victoria llega con el éxito y la victoria llega con la derrota.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

Dietary research reveals that many people go off their nutritional diets on or about day 13—a Fibonacci number. Yet if they can pass critical day 13 and make it through to day 21, they usually will succeed in losing weight and establishing the new habit pattern that allowed them to lose the weight.

This means that days 1, 2 and 3 are the most important days in getting off to a good start in hitting the next milestones––days 5, 8, 13 and then day 21.

Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. Often there is no reason to make such choices outside the context of the primary choice that calls for them. Athletes and musicians may not enjoy practicing long hours, but they do so just the same; not out of duty, obligation, or any other form of self-manipulation, but because they are making secondary choices consistent with their primary choice to be able to perform music or excel at sports.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

The only way round is through.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ARISTOTLE

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

When a man is of no use to himself or to others, when his days and nights are filled with pain and sorrow, why should he remain to endure them longer?