Quotes About Perseverance

No matter where you are in your life, you must do what you love, and fuck what anybody says about what you do. If you are an artist, maybe your 19th century romantic style is not what is popular now, but you might just discover that in ten years, everyone will pay whatever amount you ask for your paintings. Or, if you love the Impressionist movement, you might be the person who starts a Neo-Impressionism movement.

In another letter, he suggests that writing the book was "purchased so dearly and with such hardship that nobody who had the choice would have written it at that price".

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Helping someone else is the best way to ensure your own survival. It takes you out of yourself. It helps you to rise above your fears. Now you're a rescuer, not a victim. And seeing how your leadership and skill buoy others up gives you more focus and energy to persevere. The cycle reinforces itself: You buoy them up, and their response buoys you up. Many people who survive alone report that they were doing it for someone else (a wife, boyfriend, mother, son) back home.

The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause—and of obstinacy in a bad one.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best.

Sometimes a champion is the one who is ready to act, not the strongest or the bravest.

God leads you to it and takes you through it.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

How come it's so hard to come to someone's rescue? How come it's so hard to come to your own rescue?

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

I wish I could say that I'm totally healed; but that would be a lie. This much I can say: I'm as straightforward and transparent as I'm capable of being. In the recovery process, I've searched relentlessly for total healing. I don't know if that labels me quick or slow, truly open or slightly self-deceived.

A dark time is the time when the most light can come in.

You gotta dig deep to rise high.

The idiot will tire soon enough of his playthings and will come home; husbands always do.