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Quotes About Perseverance

She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she answered her captors' questions? What did she have to lose beyond misery, isolation, and silence? Yet she held out.
~ Octavia E. Butler
My brother isn't very smart, but he makes up for it in pure stubbornness.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You can beat this thing. You don't have to give in to it.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She was too bright to take anything but the most superficial comfort from her denial. But even superficial comfort is better than none, I guess.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I'm getting better, but so slowly.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
~ Octavia E. Butler
That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Dreams do come true for those who never give up
~ Unknown
If you lose I will kill you. -Zoro
~ Unknown
Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
~ Og Mandino
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
~ Og Mandino
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
~ Og Mandino
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
~ Og Mandino
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
~ Og Mandino
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
~ Og Mandino
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
~ Og Mandino
Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
~ Og Mandino
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~ Og Mandino
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
~ Og Mandino
Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how. Some people think they will eventually wear diamonds instead of rhinestones Only by everlastingly keeping their noses to their ghrinestones
~ Ogden Nash
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long.
~ Ogden Nash
May we not die premature deaths; instead, may our troubles be limited to pangs of hunger. A man with life will find food to put in the stomach. If death doesn't kill the penis, it soon eats bearded meat.
~ Unknown
Tida går, forteler dei. Men det er vi som går. Tida blir liggande att ho, og lat henne ligge.
~ Unknown
Det vonde drep du ikkje med øks.
~ Unknown