Quotes About Perseverance

What defines us isn't how we behave when things are good, Andrew, but how we respond when they aren't.

She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.

Getting older is definitely not for sissies." But then neither, it seemed, was marriage.

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

Like Pig-Pen from the Charlie Brown comic strip, her cloud hovered over her, dark and daunting and devoid of a silver lining.

She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E. L. DOCTOROW

Women survived heartache and disappointment all the time, and daily demands that men could never fathom.

If we are in the right situation, we can achieve similar results to those who are more disciplined. Even if we don't have "it" at a young age, we can arrange our world in a way that enables our success

The storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength. —Ho Chi Minh

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.

Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango. Moun ki renmen mango yo te absan lèw tap konstwi pye mango pou l ka pwodui mango men moun ki renmen mango yo toujou prezan pou yo manje tout mango yo. Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango.

Don't just look at someone's success, but look at all the effort and hard work behind it.

Ne regardez pas seulement le succès de quelqu'un, mais regardez tous les efforts et le travail acharné derrière.

Pa jis gade siksè yon moun, men gade tout efò ak travay di ki dèyè li.

Votre entreprise est comme un manguier. Les amateurs de mangues étaient absents lorsque vous luttiez pour construire le manguier afin qu'il puisse produire des mangues, mais les amateurs de mangues sont toujours présents pour manger toutes les mangues. Votre entreprise est comme un manguier.

Your business is like a mango tree. Mango lovers were absent when you were struggling to build the mango tree so that it could produce mangoes but mango lovers are always present to eat all the mangoes. Your business is like a mango tree.

But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

We've got gravity licked but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Always use the word "impossible" with the greatest of caution.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

I have learned to use the world 'impossible' with the greatest caution.