Work your craft; until it becomes an art from.

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

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.

Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere.

Success flourishes only in perseverance–ceaseless, restless perseverance.”Baron Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918); Former Fighter Pilot

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This...

Affliction is a good man’s shining time.

You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves...

Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond – yet doubt finding his own destiny

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

No matter what it is that you are going through at this very moment, I encourage you to choose perseverance over discouragement. If you hang in strong long enough, sooner or later, this experience would...

A strong man sails by ash breeze!

I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe...

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

So since I’m still here livin’,I guess I will live on.I could’ve died for love–But for livin’ I was born.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

Through powerful and heartfelt communication with the universe, you can create a new world everyday-you can be proud of.

Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.

Stop believing the false hope that “if it’s meant to be” it will happen. If that were true, everyone would be content, wealthy, fit and have great relationships. You must plan, act, persevere, make better...

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains...

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I’m sick of not knowing about my life.

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

Everything started as nothing.

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

…Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu, maka keyakinan itulah satu-satunya pembimbing...

Sometimes we scratch, claw and climb so hard to conquer a mountain that, once achieved, we cling to its summit much too long and it ultimately instigates our fall. As we dangle by our fingertips...

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you...

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even...

It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.

As long as you choose to persist and persevere, one day you would gladly look back and be very proud that you never gave up.

Perseverance is impossible if we don’t permit ourselves to hope.

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

When banana’s don’t work, try a cookie.

You have been called. Know that. Understand that. Imprint it deep in your heart and set out on your mission in whatever way you can, here and now! The world is waiting for you.

Gratitude heals, cleanses and purifies.

Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.

They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought through every obstacle that came your way. They said that you didn’t have...

This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head...

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will...

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn’t. And that’s all right, too.

The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein...

The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.