Quotes About Perseverance

That blank sheet of paper stage is one of the hardest stages, and one of the reasons it's hard is because at that stage there's nobody counting on you but yourself ... it's really just you, and you can quit any time. Nobody is going to care.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

Regardless of what occurs on earth, what goes well, what doesn't go well, and all the things that challenge humanity and challenge us personally, the sun continues to rise every morning.

Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Here's the thing about life, you get back what you put into it. Life is defined by what we choose to do with it, the things we commit to, and where we dedicate our time. Life rewards those who work harder, who care more, who give it their best, then give a little more.

I think they'll get better a lot faster if we don't spend so much time moping.

Raquel's mother had driven her fiercely to do well in school, such that high academic prowess had been the only option. Others had come upon money by luck, or had relatives acting as patrons. Rob had had none of those things. All he'd had was a home, and a harried home at that, paired with his own drive. What he'd achieved, he'd achieved almost exclusively on his own.

If you go into something, you better make it hard. Otherwise what's the point?

Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.

Rob's small room on the second floor of the Chapman Street house, a three-shelf bookcase was packed with black-and-white composition books, the front and back of each page filled with single-spaced notes from various classes. Tavarus thought, Damn, this is how you go places.

Brave is a mental illness you get when you're desperate. Sometimes it lasts for less than a minute. Sometimes it sticks with you forever, like leprosy or TB. It all depends on how many times you have to carry the condition around in your head.

Life doesn't reward those who refuse to expose themselves to difficulties and challenges.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When you believe you can do something, you have the courage to move forward despite being afraid.

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary Crowley

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all. — Miguel de Cervantes

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. — ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. — HENRY FORD

Adversity brings out our hidden potential. — Jeff Keller