Quotes About Perseverance

HE WHO DARES NOTHING NEED HOPE FOR NOTHING. BUT HE WHO DARES WINS

Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.

Castlereagh hanging at the one masthead and Fitzgibbon at the other,' thought Stephen, but with only the weariest gleam of spirit.

Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch

Van Dongen was still there, with his Dutch wife and their little daughter, for whom Picasso made a sinister doll out of a black stocking; but van Dongen's days of extreme poverty, his diet of spinach alone, were almost at an end, for he had painted a fine erotic nude of Fernande (though its origin was never acknowledged)

Now, Polychrests,' he said, 'now we are going to crack on until she groans again. Stuns'ls aloft and alow, royals, and, damn me, royal stuns'ls and skys'ls if she'll bear 'em. The sooner we're there, the sooner we're home. Topmen, upperyardmen, are you ready?' 'Ready, aye ready, sir.' A comfortable, good body of sound – relief, thankfulness? 'Then at the word, up you go. Lay aloft!

Sometimes when our backs are up against the wall, we can surprise ourselves with what we are truly capable of. We can push off those walls and discover something deep within ourselves. We just have to make sure we do not create walls within ourselves, or between us and other people. Walls are for scaling. Or for knocking down and crumbling.

Patrick Sweeney

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself. You don't look to the left or the right. You just jump in the water and swim with everything you have. You swim for your life, Ma, and when you reach the finish line and look up, whoever you thought you were competing against is gone. Poof.

Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

you're rowing by wordlight

Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth. No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.

Il y a une chose plus triste à perdre que la vie, c'est la raison de vivre, Plus triste que de perdre ses biens, c'est de perdre son espérance.

Le mal même comporte son bien qu'il ne faut pas laisser perdre

Being able to flip up against a wall and start doing handstand pushups is cool.

if your training isn't gradually lessening the pain in your life, you're doing something wrong.

Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

To Londoners, bombs and riots were just an extreme form of weather.

If I still adhered to perfect work, I never would have written this imperfect book, which for the last decade or so has changed lives across the globe.

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.