All Quotes By Tag: Perseverance
“When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were ‘somebody’.”
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“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”
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“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
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“Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
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“It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.”
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“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
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“In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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“Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!”
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“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
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“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
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