Quotes About Perseverance

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

Many things in life aren't fair, but we must learn to accept them as God's will and move on.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking along, through whichever door opens. I have been on a journey and this journey has never stopped. When the journey is acknowledged and sustained by those I work with, they are a source of inspiration, energy and encouragement. They are the reasons I kept walking, and will keep walking, as long as my knees hold out.

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.

On a Socratic view it's never time to give up. We do better by accepting that the search probably has no end but going on anyway as if it might. For even if you can't possess the truth, you can get closer to it.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

give yourself a strong incentive to want to risk failure.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm." But how does one learn to perform that "trick" of "failing enthusiastically"?

The How stage of questioning is where the rubber meets the road or, in Nanda's case, the clock hits the floor. It's the point at which things come together and then, more often than not, fall apart, repeatedly. Reality intrudes and nothing goes quite as planned.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.