Quotes About Perseverance

But you can't go back. Not ever. You have to pick up the pieces and keep moving ahead.

Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.

I did not drink because of my problems. I had problems because I drank. It would take me twenty-three years to figure that out.

But the odds against me were getting higher each day. I, who was my own worst enemy, needed a best friend. I thought booze was my friend. I did not know I was in a fight—not just with my lawyers, not just with my husband, but also with my disease. I didn't know I could not win this one on my own, that it would take years, and a change of mind and heart, to win the battle with an opponent I could not even see.

It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

This was a dog that had lived a nightmare of a life and still never whined or howled or cried out of pain or discomfort. You don't make a sound, I learned from Wonder, when no one ever comes to see how you're doing.

I believed that my parents and grandparents stayed married for fifty years because of the simple yet undeniable fact that they worked like hell at it every single day, not because they bought each other a commemorative teacup every year.

Wahiduddin Khan

Duniya ne kaha kabhi kisi ko khuch diya hain jo diya hain woh bhi chin liya hain

Ek umar guzar gayi ghar ke jhagdho mein Phir duniya ne bhi jeena muhaal kar diya

Himmat kar,sabar kar bhikar kar bhi nikhar jaaega Yakeen kar shukar kar,waqt hain guzar jaaega —Wajid shaikh

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

If you are not in an environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents you can move in due time; but meanwhile you can be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was President; as a backwoods lawyer he did common things in a great way, and that made him President. Had he waited until he reached Washington to begin to be

The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

Without faith, it is impossible for you to become great.

they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.

And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich.

Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.

Nunca se permita sentirse decepcionado. Puede esperar tener algo en un momento dado y no obtenerlo en ese momento, y esto le parecerá un fracaso. Pero si se aferra a su fe, encontrará que el fracaso es sólo aparente. Siga haciendo las cosas en la cierta manera y si no recibe lo que esperaba, recibirá algo mucho mejor que lo hará ver que el aparente fracaso fue en realidad un gran éxito.