Quotes About Perseverance

When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,

We are poor judges of when we are learning well and when we're not. When the going is harder and slower and it doesn't feel productive, we are drawn to strategies that feel more fruitful, unaware that the gains from these strategies are often temporary.

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities.

In the school of life experience, setbacks show us where we need to do better. We can steer clear of similar challenges in the future, or we can redouble our efforts to master them, broadening our capacities and expertise.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

In the school of life experience, setbacks show us where we need to do better.

When Michelangelo finally completed painting over 400 life size figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is reported to have written, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

When Michelangelo finally completed painting over 400 life size figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is reported to have written, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." What appeared to his admirers to have flowed from sheer genius had required four torturous years of work and dedication.20

It's not the failure that's desirable, it's the dauntless effort despite the risks, the discovery of what works and what doesn't that sometimes only failure can reveal.

You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.

Isn't that what people say: it is better this way? Meaning I cannot bear it but I will. I will close my eyes and stumble forward into the darkness.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid, epigram in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

Strength Doesn't Come From What You Can Do. Strength Comes From Overcoming The Things You Once Thought You Couldn't.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. —Bob Marley

It is hard to go into a fight and were often afraid," confessed the Cheyenne warrior John Stands in Timber, "but it was worse to turn back and face the women.

When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.