Quotes About Perseverance

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading. But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me.

dive inside your head, where you are safe. separate yourself from the pain. inside your head you can be in control and you can bear any pain if you know it isn't going to last. the key was figuring out when it was going to end

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

There lies the whole crux of the matter; what cannot be prevented must be borne

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

Time, thus unbroken by things to look forward to or back on, stretched endlessly.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

We tend to think of happiness (and by happiness I also mean health or overall well-being)as a gift, and sometimes it is, a pure gratuity. But most of the time it comes about because you've done the work, prepared the ground to allow it in or tended it carefully once it has arrived. You have to practice happiness the way you practice the piano, commit to it the way you commit to going to the gym.

At the time there were no psychiatrists, psychologists or counsellors on hand as there are today, waiting to treat victims of wartime stress. Or if there were, we didn't hear of them. When a difficult situation arose, or tragedy struck, as it so often did, we just picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves down and got on with life. We had no option. And perhaps it wasn't such a bad philosophy after all.

It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" . . . and the death of post-modernism.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

When we train our mind to embrace what's hard instead of trying to get rid of it, we have begun to walk a path of growth, happiness, and true resilience. Our