Quotes About Perseverance

I don't need a big idea, I need 1000 small steps: 1000 steps ahead, 500 steps back, 700 steps to the right and then I will end up somewhere. So, you really have to force yourself to trust that process.

In the end, with this combination of frustration, resistance and enthusiasm, I hope I will have gained a little more soul.

Ancient virtues may lay for many years dormant. It does not mean that they are dead. We Hobbits need merely discover them, plant them in new soil, tend our little garden with care, and wait with sunlit hope for them to spring leaf and flower again in a new age.

Chris, with Dana steadfastly at his side, would battle back to become both a leader in the fight to cure spinal cord injuries and a symbol of hope for millions.

I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana

For those who never give up

The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.

You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

The trickiest thing about not killing yourself is knowing that if one day you decide it was a mistake, then you'll always be able to rectify it. Opting against suicide may be a choice for life, but it's not for life.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

dagoes. With obscenity

I won't run away,' I said.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Odysseus doesn't overcome the lure of the siren's song through virtue and discipline; he orders his sailors to bind him to the mast.

When building something with as many moving parts as a brand-new restaurant, each small step along the way feels like a victory.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,

Importunate life. It should have something better to do Than to hang about at a chronic street-corner In dirty weather and worse company.

How do you know that out there, in the day or night According to latitude, the entire world Isn't wanting to be hanged? Now you, for instance, Still damp from your cocoon, you're desperate To fly into any noose of the sun that should dangle Down from the sky. Life, forbye, is the way We fatten for the Michaelmas of our own particular Gallows.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.