Quotes About Perseverance

Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps." "Sounds like a boring life." "I hope it lasts forever," she said.

Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.

When the going gets tough the tough get going

The women kept washing floors. It seemed to be what they did in difficult times. Unvarying things, she saw, must have a deeper value than we know.

I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The

In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said.

She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.

At what point is it acceptable to give up?

If they haven't compromised themselves already, in their hearts they want to, because being true to one's art, keeping the dream alive, is utterly exhausting.

There's a dance in the old dame yet.

it s cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through exclamation point

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint' -archy the cockroach

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

People ought never be defined by their worst day.

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once

because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. In

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

you must work on improving your skills every day and never quit. In