Quotes About Perseverance

I just want to look better by each passing day.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

I'd be at these different clubs passing out my business cards and fliers. Then the club would end, the light would come on and all my business cards would be on the floor.

After what happened with my mom passing, I was just like I need to get back. I just need to get back to my routine, get back to playing basketball.

People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

Find something you enjoy doing and give it everything you've got, and the money will take care of itself.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7

When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

Peter Meredith

It's alright," he told her. "Well, really it's not. It'll never be alright, but you get, what's the word? Inured?

Once Is Enough, Miles Smeeton's thrilling (and even funny) account of his two separate and disastrous capsizes aboard his yacht Tzu Hang in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn.

With the last sentence Blyth stumbles across the credo of all adventurers, be they sailors, mountaineers, or explorers. The where and how is simply the means to burrow as deeply as posssible into oneself. It's the answer to the relentless question that floods the mind when the exercise becomes painful and severe: What am I doing here? What's the point?

When you're lost in the Wild and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver…and die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can," And self-dissolution is barred. In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow… It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.