Quotes About Perseverance

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

Keep in mind that if God waited until we were perfect before He allowed us to be in His service, none of us could ever serve. We shouldn't use this truth as a cop-out to not change out improve, but to encourage us to keep striving when we're tempted to quit, remembering we've all got room to grow.

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Since you're the hero of your own story, I know you'll come up with a good ending.

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

You'll have to fish or cut bait. That's all there is to it. Let's pretend

drivers were still in some of them, faithfully

Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

Running twenty-six miles is no fun. I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

A Yellow Raft on Blue Water. He'd left it opened to page 158. A hard place to stop.

Do your best and forget the rest.

Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Your limitations may be challenges, but they shouldn't be excuses.

There's nothing wrong with failing. In fact, failure needs a new name. "Failure" should be renamed "awesome." Everyone loves awesome.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Solution-minded people don't see roadblocks as deal breakers.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory. —MAHATMA GANDHI

Hardcore chicken!

reframe them as "challenges." The more problems we solve the more we expand and grow ourselves; adopt the belief that "resistance makes you stronger".

Triumph in the face of adversity

Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.