Quotes About Perseverance

Stanley Matthews

It's one of the ironies of mountaineering," said Young, "that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

and, as there wasn't enough breakfast to go round, she set out hungry on the long walk to the docks.

next to Wainwright, who was already

For the senior boys," he turned his attention to the back of the hall, "you don't have a moment to lose if you hope to be offered a place at the school of your first choice. Never settle for second best.

pencil hadn't stopped scribbling

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

We stood silent. After a moment I said, Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses. Who says? Me. Because why? Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your MIND. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.

We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes

The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was like plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian reform in Anna Karenina, until you suddenly got to a good part again, which kept on getting better and better until you were so enthralled that you were almost grateful for the previous dull stretch because it increased your eventual pleasure.

Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second World War, had been a chaste affair. My mother was proud of the way she'd managed to simultaneously kindle and snuff my father's flame,keeping him at a low burn for the duration of a global cataclysm.... She didn't surrender until after Japan had.

Buffeted but not broken.

Though history is being made today, we all need to try and comprehend the years of effort by many people involved in the eventual lunar landing.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing.

That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.