Quotes About Perseverance

learning how to fail will help us more than anything else in life

The essence of life is that it's challenging.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." —Samuel Beckett

You come back to that breath over and over, through boredom, edginess, fear, and well-being. This perseverance and repetition—when done with honesty, a light touch, humor, and kindness—is its own reward.

the same old demons will always come up until finally you have learned your lesson, the lesson they came to teach you.

We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right

This pattern is what we observe in many difficult situations. For instance, if someone is very ill, everyone pulls together to help, but if the illness goes on for a year or two, people start pulling away because they're not up for that much.

step into my learning zone. I feel the discomfort and see that I have survived.

Giving up hope is encouragement to stick with yourself, to make friends with yourself, to not run away from yourself, to return to the bare bones, no matter what's going on.

We see ourselves in every episode; we realize that it's possible to keep going and never give up. We feel devotion toward the lineage of people who have worked so hard to make it easier for us.

So when I would start to become depressed, I would remember, "Now wait a minute. Maybe I just have to figure out how to rouse myself genuinely, because there are a lot of people suffering like this, and if I can do it, they can do it.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.

Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.

Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.