Tag: Perseverance

Quotes April 28, 2023

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“To be good and to do good, is all we have to do.”
John Adams
 
 
 
 
“The truth is that you always know the right thing to do. The tough part is doing it.”
General Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
General George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.”
Anonymous

Quotes April 18, 2022

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron – 1934-2021 – Professional Baseball Player
 
 
 
 
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life–and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O’Keeffe – 1887-1986 – Artist
 
 
 
 
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.”
Sidney Poitier
 
 
 
 
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.”
Howard Baker
 
 
 
 
If criticism had any real power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
Fred Allen,
comedian
 
 
 
 
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
Diogenes

Quotes October 14, 2021

Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner – 1813-1883 – Composer-Theatre Director-Polemicist-Conductor
 
 
 
 
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong – Novelist-Satirist-Poet
 
 
 
 
You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.
Sandra Cisneros,
poet, writer, artist
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
When there’s an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.
It’s more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don’t think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest.
Harry Connick Jr.,
singer, pianist, composer, actor, TV personality
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
The voice has its own intelligence and when you open it up, a lot of things come with it.
Barbara McAfee
 
 
 
 
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
Jeanette Wiinterson
 
 
 
 
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
 
 
 
 
When we are being, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
Madeleine L’Engle
 
 
 
 
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
Navigating becomes a way of knowing, familiarity, and fondness. It is how you can fall in love with a mountain or a forest.
M.R. O’Connor
 
 
 
 
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Mark Nepo

Quotes October 07, 2018

“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”
Dave Eggers
 
 
 
 
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.”
Ninon de L’Enclos
 
 
 
 
Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
 
 
 
 
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
Marie Stopes
 
 
 
 
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.”
Maeve Greyson
 
 
 
 
“You should never give up your inner self.”
Clint Eastwood
 
 
 
 
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
 
 
 
 
“Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to “give up”. Tell them “not me”.”
Israelmore Ayivor
 
 
 
 
“Let them ridicule you, laugh at you, hurt you & ignore you but never let them stop you.”
Apoorve Dubey 
 
 
 
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
Newt Gingrich
 
 
 
 
“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”
T.F. Hodge
 
 
 
 
“Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.”
James Dashner
 
 
 
 
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut,
writer
 
 
 
 
This dramatic and turbulent world makes a mockery of our plans and predictions.
Margaret Wheatley,
management consultant
 
 
 
 

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
L.R. Knost