Quotes About Perseverance

She put down her screwdriver, turned to me, and said, "Don't be silly, Ree. Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

Excuses are dream killers. If we allow them, our excuses will keep us locked in a prison of our own making.

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently.

Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Marie G. McIntyre

Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.

To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don't last forever, you know. But I'll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Kyung-sook's mother had taken it as an example that even if you started with nothing, with enough studying, one could accomplish everything.

any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt blood-raw, liquefied deep down inside him, in a pale, cold sea where the need that gnawed at him would break your heart, a fire burnt out, his heart, that dog should not have been there on Esmeralda or Bahama Street, hunger tottering on all fours, night-prowling around the Porte du Baiser Saloon where he just would not stop living despite all odds

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame." --

This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power. Money. The upper hand. The raised hand. Momma`s philosophy. Here`s to you, Momma. She raised the empty cup. What`s the use of fighting them. What`s the use. To struggle, to live in anger takes everything out of you, drains you, makes people hate you and what`s the use? You get nothing you want, all you get is tired.