Quotes About Perseverance

Bunun hiç ba??na gelmeyece?ini, gelemeyece?ini, dünyada bunlardan hiçbirinin ba??na gelmeyece?i tek ki?i oldu?unu san?rs?n; sonra t?pk? herkese oldu?u gibi hepsi teker teker senin de ba??na gelmeye ba?lar.

Crip up or grip up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Criptum vexo vel carpo vex.

Listing hard to the right like a drunken seaman with an inner ear infection.

That there's something about the craziness that he had to go through that's kept me relatively sane.

It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them.

I'd stand still for a few seconds, vainly snapping my fingers with as much hop of catching the beat as a quadriplegic hobo latching on to a moving boxcar.

I'd stand still for a few seconds, vainly snapping my fingers with as much hope of catching the beat as a quadriplegic hobo latching on to a moving boxcar.

In school, whenever I had to do something like memorize the periodic table, my father would say the key to doing boring tasks is to think about not so much what you're doing but the importance of why you're doing it. Though when I asked him if slavery wouldn't have been less psychologically damaging if they'd thought of it as "gardening," I got a vicious beating that would've made Kunta Kinte wince.

Cleaning the bathroom for thirty minutes is unpleasant, but wouldn't it be worse to spend a half hour cleaning a Sisyphean bathroom, one that stayed dirty no matter how much you scrubbed it?

Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are looking for.

The purpose of life," Peterson has written, "is finding the largest burden you can bear and bearing it," while Žižek believes that "the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

A winner never whines.

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Resentment is trying to change something that is just what it is. When we can't change it, we resent it.

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

If I think, everything is lost.

There is nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night we drink you mornings and noontime we drink you evenings we drink and we drink

Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.