Quotes About Perseverance

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

We wake at different times, and the gallantest flowers are those that bloom in the cold.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!

Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.

Ruth was funny. Her bowling was awful; she just sort of paddled up to the line and dropped the ball. Plok.

It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.

Nonetheless Princess Victoria and Prince Christopher remained

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.

Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Little things make the big things happen

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. -John wooden

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.