Quotes About Perseverance

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like.

Broken hearts mend. It's a lot harder to mend broken lives.

I come from a long line of forever people. We are forever. Here at the bottom of heaven we live in the circle. We back and gone and back again.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

Sometimes the bad guys don't win.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist, you are learning your craft -- then you can add all the genius you like.

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards.

Ümidini yitirsen bile, bir nebze ümit vard?r.

Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.

Niente è più banale che dire: la vita continua. Ma lui ora sente proprio questo, perché conosce, nel mondo, delle persone che continuano.

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.

Pierre Clostermann