Quotes About Perseverance

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out. —Will Rogers

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

Follow me, one word then another, one sentence then another, one death then another. Don't hesitate. Keep moving forward with me through the night. It won't take long. Don't look back.

Ella helped. Yes, she was a dreamer, but she had a way of doing her work without any fuss. She didn't understand the struggles some of us went through. If you had to write 1500 words you wrote 1500 words. You put one word then another then another then another.

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

It's sad but true. Most people who just "go with the flow" wind up complaining about where they "floated." They go around saying life is not fair. Well, I disagree. Life is totally fair. You get what you go for. Go for nothing and you get nothing. Go for something and, even if you miss your main goal, you might still achieve a lot of good stuff along the way.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.  

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.

It is asking a lot. But when you're attempting to do something truly extraordinary, isn't it fair to ask a lot in return?

right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.

There's really

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She would soon have somewhere to go. It was always important to keep going. Stationary objects tended to get run over.

captain of the boxing team. If you

Only one billion, nine hundred and sixty-three million, four hundred and seventy-nine Thousand, eight hundred and sixteen possibilities. I should be able to get through them in the next seven Thousand, eight hundred and fourteen years. Just sit tight and call up lots of room service. - Dan

I had to so something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

that one could never be the same afterward. It pushed bone, muscle, ligaments, and brains to places they were never intended to go. It was no wonder that so many men who had played the game were now suffering the long-term debilitating effects of entertaining millions and making large sums of money for doing so.

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