Quotes About Perseverance

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

You can pick all the flowers but you can't stop the spring. —PABLO NERUDA

Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.

We've done this as human beings before. We're survivors. We have generations of ancestors behind us cheering us on, and saying, 'Yep, we've lived through some tough stuff too.

Do not scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped, nor pause when tired.

celebrate your survival

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

The attitude or spirit with which we do our meditation helps us perhaps more than any other aspect. What is called for is a sense of perseverance and dedication combined with a basic friendliness.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. "My botherations often won't let me work,"11 he complained. He

The very important thing you should have is patience.

And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

It's common to maintain that trying a repetitive tactic in the face of ongoing failure defines insanity, but sometimes it is all we have.

Lord can restore a covenant with Israel and yet continue

[Of what it takes to be successful:] Patience, drive and very little fear.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad

The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.