Quotes About Perseverance

in response to his request.

When the going got tough, you just kicked your own ass even harder.

prompted Knox.

engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and

David Baldacci

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

David Baldacci

felt her legs begin to give way.

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.

An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.

But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.

It wasn't his place to judge the women. Theirs was the harder job, here in the wilderness. His tasks were simple—to hunt, fight, and if need be, to die. Theirs was to go on, whatever it took.

Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.

Each sober breath you draw is an act of grace, my friend said. You are making amends every day you do not use. I found enough comfort in what he said to forgive myself…

It seems to me that all our endless failures are adding up to a magnificent success. It's just not what we had in mind. It's real.

While reading a book about the construction of the Panama Canal, I came across an anecdote about the project's chief engineer, whose math teacher used to say, "If you have five minutes to solve a problem, use the first three to figure out how you're going to do it.

In one sense, depression can feel even worse than cancer, because most cancer patients feel hope as well as self-esteem.

Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.

It's never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now, spend a minimum of one hour a day doing whatever you are waiting to do until your finances are more secure, or until the children have grown and left home, or until you have finished your obligations and you feel free to do what you really want to do.

The trouble with doing things that others said were impossible, Daniel thought, is that people keep coming up with other impossible things. Eventually they're likely to be right.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.