Quotes About Perseverance

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it.

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.

I don't want to give up anymore. I want to be strong and stand for what I think even in the face of those most spiteful.

used to plan endlessly, but it never made much difference. Everything happens in the actual writing, for me. Now I just live in a book for three years or so. The computer is always on. I make decisions. I revise decisions. The book falls apart. The book comes together in a different way. The new book falls apart. I hold my nerve. The book I start writing—the easy, confident, public book—always turns fraudulent, for me, and I realize that I have

Writing is nothing if not solving problems you've created for yourself. There are no outside solutions or methods.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you're having a good day.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.

I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

I'm going to wake up. I'm

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Building purpose is...] not as simple as carving a mission statement in granite or encouraging everyone to recite a hymnal of catchphrases. It's a never-ending process of trying, failing, reflecting and above all learning. High-purpose environments don't descend on groups from on high; they are dug out of the ground, over and over, as a group navigates it's problems together and evolves to meet the challenges of a fast-changing world.

After all, you aren't built to be transformed in a single day. You are built to improve little by little, connection by connection, rep by rep. As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

If you have early success, do your best to ignore the praise and keep pushing yourself to the edges of your ability, where improvement happens. If you don't have early success, don't quit. Instead, treat your early efforts as experiments, not as verdicts. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

As Albert Einstein said, "One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.