Quotes About Perseverance

Attitude is altitude.

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

Don't pick the wrong target when you're angry, and don't hurt the ones you love or the ones who love you, because if you keep a good attitude and are prepared to do your work, you just might get an opportunity out of the blue.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

In a sense, it seems I am drowning; already half-drowned to the ordinary dimensions of space and time, I know that I must drown, as it were, completely in order to come out on the other side of things (like Alice with her looking-glass or Perseus with his mirror). I must drown completely and come out on the other side, or rise to the surface after the third time down, not dead to this life but with a new set of values, my treasures dredged from the depth. I must be born again or break utterly.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

write, write or die.

Women are marvellous at plodding through the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

As long as we don't give up, we don't fail. We just continue to learn

Resistance wears us down and dims our light

Strength is forged out of struggle

The storms in life are there to help us grow, washing away the old, clearing a path for the new, teaching us strength, teaching us wisdom. The storms in life are not obstacles to life. The storms in life are life.