Quotes About Perseverance

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is "you don't even exist." You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you're well qualified for and you'll probably never hear back from the employer.

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Don't listen to them," I said. "In fact, don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't do something. Not your parents, your teachers. Nobody.

You won't find magic potions here. No matter how enticing they may seem, promises of quick fixes mostly set us up for failure and do more to deter us than empower us.

All that travel is inevitably exhausting, but it never gets old. Arriving in the next city for the next opportunity is always a thrill. As busy as I am, wherever I am, I try to get out and walk the streets, to check out the sidewalks for cracks, to remember how far I've come and appreciate every baby step of the way, to stand in amazement and joy that the pursuit never ends.

If we get impressed with a problem, we will begin to exalt it.

You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win.

be in it to win it.

Yo, Kyle," said Miguel. "Exactly how many board games have you played?" "Enough to know that you don't ever quit until somebody else actually wins.

sometimes you learn more from losing than you do from winning. When you lose, you learn how to keep going.

Who knows, Walter? Maybe I can.

Hey, Kyle—when you're playing a game like Sorry and you get bumped back three spaces, do you usually quit?" "No. If I get bumped, I play harder because I know I need to find a way to get back those three spaces and pull ahead of the pack.

Or as Thomas Edison put it, "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Chris Grabenstein