Quotes About Perseverance

Okay then, smile and...

While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.

to be some exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

to become exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

You can't see it at the moment, 'cause all these things have just gone wrong, and you're nervous and angry about things you can't control and which aren't your fault. But if you … hang on, Charlie. I don't know. I just think there's something inside you and I love it...

The great virtue of defeat, once accepted, is that it at least allows one to rest.

That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella.

Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged peaks and hidden crevasses that send the both of you scrabbling into darkness. Then there are dull, parched stretches that you feel will never end, and much of the journey is in fraught silence, and sometimes you can't see the other person at all, sometimes they drift off very far away from you, quite out of sight, and the journey is hard. It is just very, very, very hard.

Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and your life is so full and eventfull?

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man.

If you choose to ignore these factors, good luck to you. A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Leo Burnett said it better, 'When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

The Jelly is apparently rising behind me. I could sit here and wait for it to cover me or move on, I don't know. Now that I have a few feelings to consider, and attitudes, decisions are more difficult. I suppose I'll step wherever I see a dry spot. Whenever The Jelly nips at my heels, I'll take a forward step. I'll get along.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." —John Wayne

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.

You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.

You get nothing for coming second, son. Because if you are second, you are nothing. You are nowhere – First is first. Second is nowhere.