Quotes About Perseverance

So when you experience a so-called failure, don't view this as failure, but rather as a "character muscle-building" process. It's a process that will strengthen your resolve to transform your career much the same way a caterpillar transforms itself into an elegant butterfly. The job campaign necessitates that you embrace struggle and constructively address adversity. When you do so, new opportunities will present themselves sooner than you'd think possible.

Set the bar high. Resist the easy button. Choose "mastery" over "easy" and know that great accomplishments don't come from low expectations.

Don't substitute. Carroll O'Connor, the late actor who played the role of Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, said that the problem for most people is that when they meet resistance in pursuit of their goals, they substitute easier goals rather than create better plans. When you meet resistance in pursuit of your goals (and you will), do not substitute easier goals; rather, create a more refined plan or work harder at the one you have.

When I began writing my first book in 1994, one naysayer told me I had a better chance of going to the moon than getting a book published! The most important lesson I learned back then was that anything was possible if I was committed to it. This is a valuable lesson for you. Anything is possible for you if you are committed to your goal. You must not give anyone permission to rob you of your dreams or let anything get in the way of attaining your true potential.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

mediocre marketing with commitment works better than brilliant marketing without commitment.

I tell my clients that the single most important word for them to remember while they are engaged in marketing is commitment. It means that they are taking the marketing job seriously. They're not playing around, not expecting miracles. They have scant funds to test their marketing—they must act. Without commitment, marketing becomes practically impotent.

In addition there are those who do the right thing but give up too readily. They will drill until noon, but give up because it took too long and it is getting too hot; at 1:00 P.M. they would have struck oil! They will drill through the sand until they hit rock, but then they quit; it has become too difficult. Three feet deeper and they would have hit a gusher! Hope leads to perseverence that gives one the patience to continue in spite of delay or difficulty (I Thessalonians 1:3).

Knowing that there will be a way out, an end to the problem, is itself reassuring.

snail's pace. Hanna shook her

shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.

But as me mum used to say, 'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Things will get better; I'm sure of it." "What worries me is something my dad used to say." "Oh?" "For things to get better they must first get far worse." Her eyes widened. "Oh, dear." I had the feeling my dad knew more than her mum.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have not yet learned the truth.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.

Phillis Wheatley

to his everlasting credit, as he fought "that enemy" who, in his words, repeatedly demonstrated "Herculean deeds of valor

Brilliance is born of desperation.

Jaycee Clark

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.