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.

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.

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.

It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.

Weel, ma´am’ said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; ‘when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to...

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is...

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!

be who you set out to be…

His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out,...

Every pain is a lesson.

You regard us here neither as thieves nor as robbers. Today, as in the time of Pilate, Christ the Savior is accused. Once again there is mocking and scorn, slander and noisy jubilance. But he...

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

It’s always to soon to quit!

I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again

Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.

Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison...

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I...

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey....

Get on top of the obstacles and they become vantage points.

Excellence does not need you to be perfect, but to be dedicated to what you commit yourself to.

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

I never gave up, even when people told me I’d never make it.

Guidance, like all God’s acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may...

Beloved, it’s impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead…if we continue to trip on what is behind.

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

The success gate is far at the end of the long failure corridor. Keep moving no matter how many potholes you step into. You will get there with time!

Greatness is never birth in ice cream shops but in the field of hard work and perseverance.

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störstDen bästa dagen, är en dag av törstNog finns det mål och mening i vår färdMen det är vägen, som är mödan värd

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

A true philosopher must never give up.

The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top.Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe...

Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It’s easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult...

All the answers i seek lie within me, but inner quietude is mandatory before those become loud and clear.

Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

Education is a choice. We don’t become educated by watching television, and we don’t learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from pushing up...

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains — southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species —...

I don’t believe in failure. I’m perseverant – I believe in failing.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.