Quotes About Perseverance

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

cause when there's life there's still hope

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

Keep up and you will be kept up.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.