Quotes About Perseverance

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

Life will test you to see how serious you are about achieving your objective.

No pressure, no diamonds. — Mary Case

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. — LADY HOLLAND

Now, let's assume you have a goal in mind. The next question to ask yourself is, "Am I willing to do whatever it takes to achieve this goal?" If your answer is, "I'll do just about anything, except that I won't do _______," then frankly, you're not committed.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

That made Dad pretty mad, so he said "NO SON OF MINE IS A QUITTER!" Which isn't really true at all. I'm a HUGE quitter, and so is Rodrick. And I think Manny is on his third of fourth preschool by now.

I know Mom's always saying friends come and go and family is forever, and maybe that's true. But your family isn't gonna be there when Meckley Mingo chases with his belt on your way home you from school.

You can not expect everyone to have the same dedication as you

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

ONE DISCOVERY It is easy to go down into Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub.… —VIRGIL, Aeneid

Faith is not just about what we know, but in trusting in what we don't know. Unless we acknowledge that tension, we will never stand firm when second choices threaten to unsettle us. (Singing in Babylon - Finding Purpose In Life's Second Choices)

Like Atlas, I have broad shoulders. I can carry a grudge to the crack of doom.

If one intended to pamper oneself, she had long believed, half measures weren't worth the trouble.

You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

realize you aren't the first and only person to ever face insurmountable odds.

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

anything worth having is worth paying that price for.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.