Quotes About Perseverance

We can praise a man only when we have seen what he accomplishes. But we must praise God in order to see what he accomplishes. And therefore we should praise him at the very moments in life when there seems to be no way out. Then we shall learn to see the way out for our own lives, simply because God is there at the end of every way and every blind alley.

I've done it before. I can do it again" is the mantra of this pressure solution.

These small wins matter more because they are so much more likely to occur compared to the big break-throughs in the world. If we only waited for the big wins, we would be waiting a long time. And we would probably quit long before we saw anything tangible come to fruition. What you need instead of big wins is simply the forward momentum that small wins bring.

The goal: for Ax to become familiar with feeling pressure so that he could learn to ignore it and do his job, no matter how stressful it got.

The fact is we each get multiple chances over and over again in life. Keep this in mind, and you will find your life less pressured.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

If at first you don't succeed . . . so much for skydiving.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Ah, there are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No I recover myself they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

Essaie de ne jamais oublier les rêves. La vie, les gens, tous essaieront de t'empêcher d'être libre. La liberté, c'est un boulot de tous les jours. Un boulot à plein temps.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

I myself was a torrent, I was drowned, I was navigation. My great constitution hall, my ambassador's hall, my hall for gifts and exchanges into which I usher foreigners for a first examination—I had lost all my halls with my servants. I was alone, shaken around violently like a dirty thread in an energetic wash.

Henri Philippe Pétain

The best antidote to writer's block is...to write.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.