Quotes About Perseverance

If your career doesn't work out, write a book about it.

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

If I were you, I'd clear those cobwebs out because there isn't a shop-vac out there strong enough to handle that job.

I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.

If all else fails, stop drop and roll..works for me..:)

I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up.

On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).

Go on Louis, jump up, " I'd say every day for the first three months. From the vacant look on his face, I may as well have asked him to solve a Rubik cube puzzle.

There will be days that you don't want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you've just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.

Fine, I'll teach you, ''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold

You will leave now, " said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.