Quotes About Perseverance

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

He that falls by himself never cries.

Patience is the key to paradise.

You can't quit poverty.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths.

Do them anyway - you can never spend enough time on the basics.

As Mozart himself wrote to a friend, "People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they've started work on a project-- say, a book-- but some time passes, and when you politely ask how it's going, they tell you that they're still researching. Weeks, months, years pass and they produce nothing. They have tons of research but it's never enough to nudge them toward the actual process of writing the book.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

There is nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tacks.

but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

A stronghold is a mind-set impregnated with hopelessness that causes the believer to accept as unchangeable something that he/she knows is contrary to the will of God. P. 24

Don't come home a failure.

I've got to be first all the time — in everything.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work" one time, because there you are just testing for basic prep. Ask it again. And again. And again, until the candidate can't come up with any more answers. And don't look away, break the tension with a chuckle, or give the candidate a chance to divert attention and halt the questioning process.

A particular personality trait that doesn't come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations.