Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

The devout are not spared.

You have to want it, want it so bad you will never give up, so bad that you are ready to sacrifice time, money, sleep, friendships, even your reputation," he writes. "You will have to adopt a particular lifestyle of ambition, not just for a few weeks or months but for years and years and years. You have to want it so bad that you are not only ready to fail, but you actually want to experience failure: revel in it, learn from it.

It's not that I'm so smart," Albert Einstein once said. "It's just that I stay with problems longer." Einstein's simple statement is a clarion call for all who seek greatness, for themselves or their children. In the end, persistence is the difference between mediocrity and enormous success.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

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O]ne of the read truths about life in any police department: For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of coworkers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job. All of it matters if you don't.

We didn't find our rightful audience, but from the ashes of the AC scene, we shall rise again – the Phoenix always does. Our true audience will find its way to us eventually. It's not unusual for a false audience to come first.

Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

Like the Christian Second Coming, science's promissory materialism is never delivered, and, like the Second Coming, it will never be delivered, yet science's believers go on believing, just as Christian believers go on believing.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

In the race for quality, there is no finish line.

After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

Two struggling musicians, always broke, forever hopeful.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

With my nose buried in the floorboards, I reflected that, in such situations, there are three kinds of people: those who stand in front of a tank and dare it to run over them, like the guy in Tiananmen Square; those who make brave speeches behind the barricades, like the students in Paris in 1968; and those, like me, who chew dirt.

Just tell yourself, "No broken windows.

Como todo en la vida, sólo lo que puede salir mal merece la pena intentarse.

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.