Quotes About Perseverance

If it comes easy, if it doesn't require extraordinary effort, you're not pushing hard enough: It's supposed to hurt like hell.

Life is at its most extraordinary during the struggle, not during times of idle contentment

Respect the distance, take each breath purposefully, make every step count, calculate the surges, watch your heart rate, stay hydrated, maintain your calories. Do all of these things continuously while remaining incorruptibly patient. An ultramarathon moves slowly very quickly.

Being originated from a poor family does not let you think poor, but your weaknesses do.

what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

You often take two steps backward to take one step forward.

There will be much darkness ahead—but, in the end, there will be light.

The world is worth fighting for.

You often take two steps backwards to take one step forward.

The best things in life make you sweaty. —Anonymous

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.

there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I'd accomplished something.

What was it that Napoleon said, my lady? 'Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

but just beneath the bell was a small scarlet plaque bearing the name of the club and the legend ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

Do you know what sort of trouble you are courting?" "Courting?" I gave him a scornful look. "I married it long ago. As our favorite detective, Arcadia Brown, would say to her faithful Garvin, 'Excelsior!

You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you.

A woman could love a jackass. She could not love a son of a bitch. Many have tried, Gideon. Many have tried.

Will you write?" I asked. "Probably not. The pen is a demanding mistress. I take delight in thwarting her expectations.

the scars were commentary to his courage,

Fecklessness! We are never feckless," I told her coldly. "We are full to the brim with feck.