Persistence
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
-Tobias Wolff
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
-Plutarch
"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"
-Rudyard Kipling
The only time you can consider yourself a complete and utter failure is when you quit.
We learn so much from each and every trial, and we achieve, not in a wild and dramatic way, but in going on, step by step, every day.
There is great nobility in one who, bloodied but unbowed, keeps moving through life with the relentless determination of one who knows their worth--and who will not be broken.
Every day, I see you--your successes, and what you perceive to be your failures.
What makes you beautiful, and heroic, and amazing, is the fact that you just keep going.
I am awestruck. I love it. I love it that you don't give up, that you don't quit, that you keep on.
I do it, too.
We're magnificent.
And we're all still here--and will be here, faithful as the sun--until we are finished.
Losers quit when they think they cannot win--winners win when they think they cannot quit.
We can only win when we show up for the game.
You're all just STUNNING.
-Tobias Wolff
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
-Plutarch
"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"
-Rudyard Kipling
The only time you can consider yourself a complete and utter failure is when you quit.
We learn so much from each and every trial, and we achieve, not in a wild and dramatic way, but in going on, step by step, every day.
There is great nobility in one who, bloodied but unbowed, keeps moving through life with the relentless determination of one who knows their worth--and who will not be broken.
Every day, I see you--your successes, and what you perceive to be your failures.
What makes you beautiful, and heroic, and amazing, is the fact that you just keep going.
I am awestruck. I love it. I love it that you don't give up, that you don't quit, that you keep on.
I do it, too.
We're magnificent.
And we're all still here--and will be here, faithful as the sun--until we are finished.
Losers quit when they think they cannot win--winners win when they think they cannot quit.
We can only win when we show up for the game.
You're all just STUNNING.