Quotes About Perseverance

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

We're waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the big fool says to push on.

The world is like a seesaw out of balance: on one side is a box of big rocks, tilting it its way. On the other side is a box, and a bunch of us with teaspoons, adding a little sand at a time. One day, all of our teaspoons will add up, and the whole thing will tip, and people will say, 'How did it happen so fast?

So remember when you're looking for trouble That trouble is already busy with weaker men

How many tasks had I dared not attempt because I accepted their reverberating jibes that I was "good for nothing?

14. Perseverating About Being Attacked. Unless there are clear signs of danger, I will thought-stop my projection of past bullies/critics onto others. The majority of my fellow human beings are peaceful people. I have legal authorities to aid in my protection if threatened by the few who aren't. I invoke thoughts and images of my friends' love and support.

Experiencing one's own inadequacies and still going on in spite of them are two of the greatest achievements of adulthood.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Alexis Canell

Deep, short and sincere holy life is by far better than a supposedly long holy life punctuated by capitulations to temptations and distractions.

But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.

After decades of war and months of virus-fueled isolation, the people of Uíge did not waste energy.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

If I can do it, I'll do it better than it was ever done before, and if I can't do that I'll quit to save you the embarrassment of firing me.

2 Timothy 47.

Forgive me, I'm a relentless bastard.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different.

Having a brain tumor is like finding yourself in the middle of a dark forest. You're not sure how you got there, and you don't know how you'll get out.

My strong opinion is that you should continue on with life as normally as you can, no matter what kind of tumor you have.

Just standing on the slope, waiting, I felt helplessly committed with the other two. I started hating the predicament, and then hating climbing, utterly and in general, and wishing myself out of it.

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If you bite off more than you can chew, chew like bloody hell. Peter Brock

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

There is no resting place; you have to keeping trying to get it all down on the page. Silence threatens: as for Balzac's fictional Dante, writing is a constant skirmish with nothingness.