Quotes About Perseverance

God made Labrador in six days. And on the seventh, he threw rocks at it. —Old Newfoundland saying

Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger.

You've done loads of good things, Millie - I'm not quite sure how exactly, but things often go wonderfully right in the end for you

Where there's a will there's relations. Misquoted from the Book of Proverbs

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.

There are so many of us out there, trying to turn Spyrograph flowers into rocket ships.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

Will is a skill.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

We all need the pipe dream of writing the great novel, or winning the pools, or becoming managing director and kicking all our colleagues in the teeth. The world is deep and dark and full of tigers, and we need those shimmering white castles in the air to creep into when life gets unbearable.

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions—discouragement and despair—and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: "My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.