Avenues to Persistence

The Avenue of Persistence

Persistence Quotes for College Students *

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  Don't wish for it...work for it.

        - Bumper sticker

• Cry when you need to, laugh when you can.
  Either way the sun comes up tomorrow on a new day.
  

  - Attributed to Mick Lindley [I have no information about him.]

• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
  - Ben Okri, Born 1959, Nigerian poet and novelist

  
  
  Image source: Poetry International Web
  

• What's the use of running when you are in the wrong road?
  
  - An Old Saying
• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop.
  

       - Sadie T.M. Alexander, 1898-1989

  
  

  Image source: 2010 Black History Month - YouThinkWhat.com
  

  
  

• Things don' change. You change your way of looking, that's all.
  

       - Carlos Castaneda, <1925-1998, Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author

  
  
  Image source: Wikipedia
  

• You must first be a believer if you would be an achiever. - Unknown
  
  Image source: an email from a friend
  
• A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
  
  - Attributed to Mildred W. Struven, an American housewife Quoted by her daughter Jean Harris Stranger in Two Worlds (1986)
• Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
  
  

       - James "Jimmy" J. Ling, 1922-2004, American businessman

  
  

  
  Image source: Obituary in The New York Times
  

• Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.
  
       - Yahia Lababidi, Born 973, Egyptian - Lebanese origin
  Image source: Ratanga Junction Theme Park,
  
  

   Capetown, South Africa
  

• Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen...
  but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
  

       - The Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall, 1902-1949, Scottish-American preacher who served as the US Senate Chaplin

  
  

   
  
  Image source: Peter Marshall Ministries

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

• I wanted this.


• I worked hard for this.


• I deserve to be here.


• I have been through harder times than these.


• I will not feel out of place.


• I will not be intimidated.


• I will not intimidate others.


• I will welcome new opportunities.


• I can do this.


• I will do this.


• I will not fail.


• I will achieve my goals.




     - Unknown

• Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
       - Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, Hall of Fame football coach

  
  

   
  Vince Lombardi, 1933
  Image source: SI Vault

  
  

   

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  
  

  
         - Walt Disney, 1901-1966, Creator of Disneyland and Disney World

  
  

  
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• The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.
       - Cesar Pelli, Born 1926, Argentine-American architect

  
  

  
  Image source: FIABCI Argentina

•      My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.   
        - Hank Aaron, Born 1934, American athlete, Baseball Hall of Famer

  
  

   
  Image source: SportingNews.com
  
  

  
  

   

• Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
       - Buddha, B.C. 568-488, Indian spiritual leader

  
  

  Frank Hurkey photograph of the "Endurance" traped in packed ice
  Read the image source: Frank Hurley: The "Endurance" and Paget Color by John Bailey, ASC
  in the 3/8/2010 post in the American Society of Cinematographers Magazine
  
  
  
  

• When things get really difficult, all I can say is,
  ask for help.
       - Dr. Bernie Siegle, Author, holistic healer

  
  

  
  Image source: An email from my brother
  

• The thoughts of the day become the dreams of the night.
       - Unknown                                                                        
  

  
  

  
  
  by Nik Ainley aka Shiny Binary in  Design Your Way
  
  

  
  

   

• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
       - August Wilson, 1945-2005, American playwright

  
  

   
  Image source: Daily Pictures

• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
       - Willa Cather, 1873-1947, American journalist, novelist

  
  

  Storms Comin' by exoart
  Image source: Deviantart.com
  
  
  
  

• You may not know it, but at the far end of dispare, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
       - Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright

  
  

  
  Image source: SummiPost.org
  
  

• Little by little time goes by;
  short if you sing, long if you sigh.
       - Unknown                                        
  

  
  

   

  
  

  watching time fly by   Yvie Yvonne

  
  

   

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
       - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American author... was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature

  
  

  
  Aerial view, the Three Sisters volcanoes in Oregon, from the south looking north. Left to right -- South Sister, Middle Sister, and North Sister
  USGS Photograph taken in September 1985 by Lyn Topinka
  Image source: USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington