Quotes About Perseverance

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

Night has fallen. And it will last for a very long time.

Mr. Strike Out!

If you're going to fight, fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark. And brother, it's starting to rain. — on a t-shirt being sold by a Bangkok street vendor

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

I'll be all right," Drift whispered. She leaned forward and pulled Rook into a quick, tight hug before letting go. "So will you. But you're going to have to trust." "Trust what?" Rook asked, misery welling up inside her. Drift was asking the impossible. "I trust you. I trust Fox. Isn't that enough?" "No," Drift said. "You have to trust yourself and try to give this world a chance.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

this whole scene of me lying in bed and reading books would drive my mother to fits of anger, for she was sure it meant I was doomed to a life of slothfulness, but as it turned out, I was only doomed to write books other people might read.

A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.

this is how to love a man; and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.

Setting a goal is the first step, and completing a goal is the commitment."

Through preparation. We salvage what we have. Through preparation. We can start a new. A commitment to time.

Jamela Dunbar

You do not fail when you try, you fail when you do not try."

James A. Belasco

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

By twenty-six Hume had completed the first two volumes of A Treatise of Human Nature, 'the masterpiece which contains all that is most important in his thought'. The Treatise, though, was 'a complete failure', and there followed years of poverty and insignificance. Hume