When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn’t break.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you’ll get through. Just stick at it.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if...

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from.

It’s good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you’ll get there, not because you’re destined to, but because you’re determined to.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Sometimes the smallest push leads to the greatest triumph.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power...

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Part of perseverance is knowing what you want. Indecision is as useful as road signs in Spain written in Dutch.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

There is absolutely no difference between a dreamer and a non-dreamer, if the dreamer’s dream is not accompanied with faith, courage, perseverance, patience, and consistent actions. Every dream needs some consistent actions in order to...

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people...

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”Of course. Who said it?”I don’t know.”He was probably a coward,’ she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The...

To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.

Dreams become reality through faith and perseverance.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you.

Find your ‘why’. Give your life meaning.

Stick in and do my best.

Remember at the junior picnic, when someone whipped that dog at Jennifer’s head? And Jennifer was laughing, like it was funny? Ted never copped to it, but I know he did it. I saw him....

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few...

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Self-preservation is not a man’s first duty: flight is his last. Better and wiser and infinitely nobler to stand a mark for the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and to stop at our post...

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended...

Sometimes you can’t fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

[For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God’s pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless...

Courage provides you with two qualities; the capability to begin something and the ability to endure it to the end! Let no one stop you from sparking your life with courage!

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don’t get master’s degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time...

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

True, luck may rule over parts of a person’s life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there’s a WILL– much less a strong will to swim...

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else’s imperfect knowledge.

I’m trying to ruin it!” Will had bellowed back. “So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won’t take risks?

What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike,...

Truly worthy are those who become brighter as the days get cloudier so that their light shines through, regardless of how hard the clouds are working to block their radiance.

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.