Quotes About Perseverance

one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.

It's like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way

Truth is, if the drought don't get you and the blizzards don't get you, that's when some devil with liquor in his soul and a gun in his claw will ride you down and clean you out.

The only hope we have is that we

can pay off on our failures, and Molly's grin had burned the hope right out of me.

The only hope we have is that we can pay off on our failures

During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

They waited for miles and miles of time

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

?ak i kad je nebo prekriveno teškim oblacima, nije rije? o tome da je Sunce nestalo. Sunce je još uvijek ondje, iza oblaka.

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

Even the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through fasting and extreme forms of asceticism for six years, but he did not attain enlightenment until after he had given up this practice.

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

purse, was steady.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

there is nothing else in life like getting to the summit. What's more, I've always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward.

Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.

No matter what the future holds in store, I can say now—out loud, without hesitation—something that, sadly, all too few men and women can ever say: I have lived my dream.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.