Pressure Quotes

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

~ Abraham Lincoln

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

~ Michelle Kwan

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

~ Judith Rossner

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

~ Archie Moore

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

~ Bible

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

~ Edward Eggleston

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.

~ Anne Lamott

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

~ Lily Pincus

To be happy drop the words if only and substitute instead the words next time.

~ Smiley Blanton

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

~ Cyril Connolly

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

~ Robert Frost

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

~ Phyllis Diller

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

~ Joan Baez

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

~ Geraldine Jewsbury

Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.

~ Joe David Bellamy

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

~ William Carlos Williams

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

~ Ordway Tead

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

~ Diane Sawyer

Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend over steep ways to the stars fulfills itself.

~ W. C. Doane

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

~ Roseanne Barr

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

~ John Adams

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.

~ Billy Martin

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

~ Raymond Chandler

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

~ William Hazlitt

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

~ Anouk Aimee

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

~ Louis L'amour

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

~ Rosie Perez