All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
~ Erica Jong
Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.
~ Bible
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: Sail on! sail on! and on!
~ Joaquin Miller
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
~ Shelley Winters
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
~ Johann Von Goethe
Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.
~ Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
~ Diane Glancy
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
~ Julia Ward Howe
I have often been adrift but I have always stayed afloat.
~ David Berry
God helps those who persevere.
~ Koran
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
~ Henry Miller
To strive to seek to find and not to yield.
~ Alfred
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
~ Mother Teresa
If you stop struggling then you stop life.
~ Huey Newton
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.
~ Louis L'amour
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
~ E. M. Bounds
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
~ Maltbie D. Babcock
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
~ Clementine Paddleford
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
~ William Saroyan
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.
~ Dan Pearce
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
~ Hermann Maier
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.
~ Tom Watson
A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
~ Joe Jonas
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
~ Herman Kahn
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
~ Tommy Lasorda
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
~ Michael Fassbender
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
~ Atul Gawande
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
~ Jeb Bush
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
~ Natalie Cole
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
~ Akshay Kumar
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
~ Paul Walker
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
~ Katherine Dunn
In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
~ Steve Carell
