Quotes About Perseverance

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter, makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

I speak Japanese the way a bear dances. It's not that the bear dances well that impresses people, it's the fact the bear dances at all.)

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Today was scary. But they're all scary. We can't fret around the planet waiting for something to kill us, or worried something's going to kill someone we love. I'm not going to stare off into the void waiting for it all to end.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.