Quotes About Perseverance

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there

You can be on the right track and still get run over by the 2:40 from Albuquerque.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

I do think back,' Mom told me, 'on my wonderful headmistress at Brearly, the one who told us we could have everything we wanted.... And then, years later, I went back for a reunion, and I told the headmistress that I, indeed, managed to have it all--a husband, a career, three children--but that I was tired all the time, exhausted in fact. And she said, 'Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it's also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.

book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,

Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

The Bite of the Mango,

That's the point, Will. You can't control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness. As long as he can, well then, he still has something worth living for. And when he's no longer able, he knows he's done all he can.

Usually, Mom popped right up after that [chemo] and gathered her things, and we were on our way. Today she remained in the chair. "Are you okay, Mom?" I asked. She looked very tired. "I am feeling a little sad. I know there's a life everlasting - but I wanted to do so much more here.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA

Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

he objected to work, but that the world being the harsh place it is he had to suffer his lot like the rest of humanity.