Quotes About Perseverance

Fight it, and the bad memories will consume you, like all diseases. I have seen it happen . .

And why do we fall, Master Bruce? So that we might better learn to pick ourselves up.

dug itself into the

When we say this, we're assuming you are a long-term investor who is determined to stick with stocks no matter what.

The offspring of immigrant factory workers had a chance to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, executives, and even owners of the very companies where their parents and grandparents worked long hours for low pay.

We are impatient for results.

That's the only way to do it—go.

considerable

We told ourselves that we would assume that nothing would be done when we expected it to be done; the fact that it happened at all would be enough.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

When one's life begins with a dead twin brother in a two-room shack with no electricity, rags in the cracks to keep out the winter cold, and a flower in a milk bottle for decoration in the summer, the world can seem angry and ungiving; a teat of sour milk.

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.

Some persons are made more perfect by what befalls them, as is whatever befalls them can never make them less, can never bring them low, as it might others. --Gina Berriault, The Tea Ceremony

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

where it revealed itself to him, and try not to dwell too much on his failures and losses.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favor another small win.

T]his is the land of liberty and equality, where a man sees and feels that he is a man merely, and that he can no longer exist, [except if] he can himself procure the means of support. —Robert Stuart, journal postscript for October 13, 1812, while starving in today's Wyoming, shortly before discovering the South Pass

He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;