Perseverance Inspiring Quotes

A human being can only endure so much. This life exceeds the limit! ~ Gary McDougall

You must rise up anytime you fall. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring. ~ Laz Alonso

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Divinity exists in all creations. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God bless all people. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good. ~ Timothy Dalton

We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk ... an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future. ~ Barack Obama

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ~ Robert Wise

Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine. ~ Jalaja Bonheim

There is enough work for everyone. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Do not despise any experience. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them. ~ Gino Norris

Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way. ~ Steven Rinella

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it. ~ Maura Tierney

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! ~ Robbie Thomas

I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's simpler living in remote tribes or communities where one is obliged to have a go or else you have to do without. I suppose it is fear of failure in an age where political correctness is trying to erase the word 'failure' from the language. It's OK to fail isn't it, but only if you've tried? What is so bizarre is that when one does try, one rarely falls short. Obviously some people do things better than others but if it gives you pleasure, then so what? As my grandmother used to say, 'patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence!' So don't say you can't make candles or soap or that you can't spin or weave until you've tried it. As for mending, well, if you're not throwing everything away, then you have no option but to make do and mend. After all, the only way to get rid of shopping malls and supermarkets with their food miles is for people not to shop in those places and the way to cure this mercenary mercantile world is to make your own things. ~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It. ~ George Roy Hill

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government. ~ Ralph Moody

You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you, ~ David Crosby

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think 'There must be something else people do,' you won't quite be able to quit. ~ Alice Munro

There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours. ~ David Sturt

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound. ~ Tamaryn

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. ~ Plutarch

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. ~ Alan Watts

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with. ~ Lee Hammond

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate ... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless. ~ Christopher Reeve

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world's lighthouses - we hold that much power within us. ~ Pooja Ruprell

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. ~ Roger L'Estrange

We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem. ~ William L. Swing

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Step by step the ladder is ascended. ~ George Herbert

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. ~ Sinclair Lewis

The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude. ~ Gloria Tesch

Hakeem: A wise man once said that suffering produces perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Andre: Since when did spouting masochism make one wise? And the sacraments of a bitter existence? Who deemed that a vaunted prize? Nihilistic philosophy only births more pain. It's fruitless to espouse folly, repackage it as wisdom, and spew it in a wise man's name. ~ Booker T. Mattison

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me. ~ Marjane Satrapi

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Life is unexchangeable grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita