Quotes About Perseverance

It really hurts when your friends (particularly Christian friends) unfairly criticize your efforts to become a healthier, more Christlike woman. But don't let your hurt stop your journey. Keep moving toward your destination.

There's so much going on here, and out there, and places we don't even know about. Everything's so scary and uncertain. We never know when fate will shake it all up. That's pretty deep. You gotta wonder how we'll ever make it through. I guess we can fall back on what's gotten us this far. A positive attitude and lots of denial?

There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.

But determination can make the miraculous possible.

My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. I now placed a bean in each of the holes. I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. I opened my thermos and watered them all. And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

she could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure

Because for all of his big frame, loud voice and quick smile, Lou Gehrig was one of those strange souls born to be frustrated, to have glory and happiness always within his reach, yes, even to have it in his grasp, only to have it snatched away from him.

Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.

Patience is drawing on underlying forces; it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

I've been ridiculed by silk-suited lawyers, jailed by ornery judges, and occasionally paid for services rendered. I never intended to be a hero, and I succeeded.

We keep looking for justice, but it's nothing but stormy nights and dark alleys out there.

Remember me, that you shall know when you face the darkness that the light shall never die.

Rock it man. I know you will

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me. Shine until tomorrow, let it be

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light That shines on me Shine on till tomorrow, Let It Be...

The spirit of those men of steel, / their gray-eyed wives and daughters