Quotes About Perseverance

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

Instead, we spent our downtime prodding at lifeless characters and wondering how long a human body could subsist on a diet of ramen and Coke before liver function ceased entirely.

Nobody cirlces the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." — Winston Churchill

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

Our son Barney was about to be born when I started, [this book] and will start school about the time this is going to press. When I told him I was a writer and not a firefighter, he said:" but writers don't do anything.

Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.

Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

The biggest complaint we heard in those days was that the training was too easy.

who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

It was hard not to be full of hope

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.