Quotes About Perseverance

Someone asked a concert violinist in New York's Carnegie Hall how she became so skilled. She said that it was by "planned neglect." She planned to neglect everything that was not related to her goal.

They that walk, walk with many. They that run, run with few. But those that fly, fly alone.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

Addicts know the voices in their heads can't be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that's what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.

at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

So let me give you a blessing. When everything around you seems conspiring to tear out your heart and your mind, or show you that there is nothing but power and survival, look up there, Kar, at the moon in the giant sky. Hold it as a truth, beyond what we are too blind or ignorant to see all around us. Hold it like love, Kar, and Remember me.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Whenever we try to improve things and fail, it is not because the spiteful (or unfathomably benevolent) gods are thwarting us or punishing us for trying, or because we have reached a limit on the capacity of reason to make improvements, or because it is best that we fail, but always because we did not know enough, in time.

One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one's own and others'.

And it was telling that it took forty-three years to rebuild the single bridge across the Liffey after it collapsed in 1385, and that it was the abbot of St Mary's Abbey, not the justiciar or the merchants, who eventually oversaw the construction of what was the first fully stone bridge.

Remember what Glenn Livingston says, "The name of the game, is to stay in the game, until you win the game." So dammit, market like crazy and start making offers. You will start winning and little victories will lead to huge pay days – you can take that to bank, literally.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would