Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Push yourself to the brink of exhaustion into the crossroads of excitement and anxiety. Embrace the risks taken, and never acknowledge the shadows of doubt that stretch across your path. It is only there where you will discover a personal success that exceeds the pictures painted in your dreams
~ Carl Henegan
To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.
~ Dean F. Wilson
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 thirty laps or run twenty kilometers -- there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around.
~ Haruki Murakami
Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations
~ Gino Norris
Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.
~ Ken Norton
The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.
~ Eleanor Brownn
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Hope is a fruit of proven character.
~ John Eldredge
I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.
~ Mary Beth Chapman
My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.
~ Jacob Maldonado
It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~ Seneca
Keep passing the open windows.
~ John Irving
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
~ Maya Angelou
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
~ H.g. Wells
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Giving up is the only sure way to fail.
~ Gena Showalter
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
~ Roger Von Oech
Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific human qualities such as intelligence and adaptive skills can be cultivated through applied effort to assist a person overcome a resounding failure. Each person would be wise to ask how does a person cope – grapple – with failure? We derive strength from our struggles.
~ Kilroy J. Oldster
You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.
~ Karen Karbo
You should be patient to wait for what you want.
And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win.No. Sometimes you don't win. He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying.
~ Daystar721
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 the failure, you never give up.
~ John Cena
This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something.Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail.
I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.
~ Ryan Lilly
Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times.
~ Kuribayashi Tadamichi
The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.
~ Habeeb Akande
It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.
~ Silvia Hartmann
A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.
~ Maddy Malhotra
For best results, apply regularly.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside.
Be patient with yourself.The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance.
The Swimmer's Advantage:1)Your goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get you there.2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head above the water. 3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead. 4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.
