Overcome Your Struggles: Quotes to Help You Persevere - page 40

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
 Allen Tate
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
 Sharon Gannon
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
 Zach Anner
The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)
 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
 Rex Stout
I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it\'s more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
 Janet Jackson
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
 Charles James
I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.
 Shawn Tompkins
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
 Bernie Mac
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
 Cicely Tyson
I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.
 Rebecca Romijn
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.
 Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest works are done by the ones.  The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might.  Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.
For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee