Quotes About Perseverance

Most things worth doing are difficult," he replied. He said this not in a glib way but in a tone and with an expression that made me think he spoke from personal experience. He added that while everyone wants to leave each session feeling better, I, of all people, should know that that's not always how therapy works. If I wanted to feel good in the short term, he said, I could eat a piece of cake or have an orgasm. But he wasn't in the short-term-gratification business.

Fatal is fatal, but it doesn't have to be all downhill.

People don't finish, Rose. People stop. To finish is to say okay, now it's right, never I'm going to change it. To stop is to say okay, it's not perfect, but I have to go to something else.

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

Resilience, thy name is Devine.

In that moment, the possibly deceased naked cowboy was the cherry on top of the dung cake that was her life.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

sometimes life's like a bad waiter and serves you exactly what you don't want. You can cry and scream and order him to take it back, but in the end, you're the one who has to deal with what's finally set before you.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Would you rather leave?" "Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.

Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.

This woman had every right to complain about her life, the harshness of it. Instead she met it head-on and worked hard to make it better for herself.

Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Your diseases cannot stand in front of your determination.

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.