Quotes About Perseverance

As for the ewe, she was still in meditation, her eyes clamped shut, repeating the code of thieves and charlatans and those who are good to themselves the world over. I have to do what I have to do, she said. I have to do what I have to do.

Whichever way he intended those two faint words, I will take them and, in doing so, throw down this lance I've been hoisting for the past sixty years.

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

back of the team jerseys to serve as a constant reminder of the narrow margin between winning and losing, failure and success, between being good and becoming great.

try and do twenty-minute climbing intervals, riding at my heart-rate threshold of 150 until I get to almost the top of the climb and then I go over a little bit.

Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he'd have drown himself at high tide. My sister- so shy, so sincere- once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I've ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that's the most radical contradiction of ourselves.

sonríe a pesar del dolor en el tobillo izquierdo. En algún lugar leyó que los ganadores del maratón se vuelven héroes por tantas horas dedicadas al entrenamiento; el día de la carrera, en cambio, los héroes comienzan a llegar después de las cuatro horas. El día de hoy, se dice Matus, seré un héroe.

Conocí a un piloto que decía: si nadie está tratando de adelantarte, preocúpate. Quizá es que vas el último.

Todos cometemos errores en esta vida, tú también los cometerás, y lo único importante es levantarse y enderezar lo que dejaste torcido.

Lo complicado no es sobreponerse al abandono de una mujer, lo complicado es sentarse a reescribir tus sueños.

Quien no ha llegado a rastras por el suelo hasta el dormitorio de su casa no sabe lo que es vivir.

We must forget past failures," he advised in one of his sermons, "for many times we forget the things of today in lamenting the failures of the past.… Some men regret the last rays of the setting sun, while others look toward the east for the first light of dawn.

If you're negative, your whole body suffers. A negative person falls apart, because the food that is supplied with optimism is not present." An optimist does not deny darkness. Optimists like Charlie refuse to sink into it, to hide in it, to surrender to darkness.

It's natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the "not." Charlie had a gift for ignoring.

as Douglass gained literacy, "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

immobilized their vehicles. And some of their

small craft had yet returned, so

My God, woman! Your life was destroyed. You've rebuilt a new one, a deeply productive one, without ever surrendering. You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living through the next three minutes were, but it didn't matter. They were all that stood between six hundred civilians and cold-blooded murder, and Alicia's green eyes were hard as she watched the gaps being punched through the western wall. Make it count, people, she said, almost conversationally.

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you can't waste resources reinforcing failure Ã¢â'¬Â¦

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