Quotes About Perseverance

Crossword puzzles are designed to be solved, while codes and ciphers are designed to prevent solution. With codes, you have to be prepared to work for months—for years—and fail.

Tooth and nail they worked. No one jostled for promotion. All this, they knew, was temporary. The point was to win the war and get back to their regularly scheduled lives.

You okay?" Sam asks. "Gonna be," I say.

I have just gotten sick of always being called intense, you know?" "Intense is good", Maria saya. "Not for little girls" "For little girls who want to be the first female fighter pilots?

I naively thought that all I had to do to pull this off was toss my fat history out like trash. I couldn't make the deal fast enough.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one's strength.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Craftsmanship isnt like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until its empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Go after your dreams. Never give up!

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

I can tell you at any rate how to get what you want. You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eye wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal--the truest thing in Scripture is about Lot's wife.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.