Quotes About Perseverance

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." —Ernest Shackleton, advertisement for crew for 1914 Antarctic expedition

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do.

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.

The beauty in life is in the struggles along the way to character.

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

Learn to swim, and then swim. -John Lennon when asked, "What's the meaning of life?

Still, making music is its own reward.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and