Quotes About Perseverance

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

when]asked, "What should I do if I want to become a writer?" "Well," Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, "My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll make a wonderful life.

Having hope," writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, "means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks." Hope is "more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right"; it is "believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals.

As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.

We do not have to become heroes overnight," Eleanor once wrote. "Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed," Abigail Adams wrote to her son John Quincy Adams in the midst of the American Revolution, suggesting that "the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Mountaintop experiences and spectacular miracles won't create faithfulness without a lifestyle that supports it.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

Larson would kick my butt! This is good.

Fortitude is a value missing in our society today. There is a reality about sticking things out for a better day to dawn that is not cliché, but honest-to-God good advice that we should all weigh and consider

We're simply going to do what we always do. Clean it up. Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and figure it out. Come on now.

she could squeeze the balls off a buffalo nickel.

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Success, for any sane adult, is exactly equivalent to doing one's best. What that best may be, what its farthest reaches may include, we can discover only by freeing ourselves completely from the Will to Fail.

With the time and energy we spend in making failure a certainty we might have certain success.

Yet when it comes to going straight to the appointments we make with ourselves and our own fulfillment, we all act very much like the hero of this silly fable: we drive the wrong way. We fail where we might have succeeded by spending the same power and time.

These seem such minor matters, but it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Thirdly, the advice is not to dash out and impress others by posing, pretending or downright lying about one's successfulness. The only one to impress, at least at first, is yourself, and that only to the extent of making for yourself a congenial working-atmosphere. The recommendation, once more, is simply this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.