Quotes About Perseverance

I'm going to take it step by step to get my belt.

When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

I want the belt. Always.

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.

I want to secure my name. I'll fight who I have to fight for the belt.

Some people win 10, 15, and don't fight for the belt.

I want the undisputed belt.

I'm not going to fight unless it's for a belt. Nothing else matters but the belt.

I don't care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.

I'm always thinking to myself about getting the belt back.

A lot of people say they don't care about the belt, but that's not true. For me, when I say it, I really mean that.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be - and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on.

seen or unseen, in sun or clouds, broiling or frigid, it just sits, being itself. At times visited by violent storms, buffeted by snow and rain and winds of unthinkable magnitude, through it all the mountain sits.

With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act—a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of use were probably seeking, above else, something like a state of grace.