Perseverance - 2012

I've been thinking of my word for this coming year - and Perseverance keeps coming to my mind. I wanted to have Curiosity - but Perseverance keeps being Persistent! I have many thoughts when I think of the word - from having stamina through hard time to moving through many learning experiences and coming through the new year with new insights. Always before my Word of The Year has been simple to understand - but this year it is not so easy.



The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher


The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie


Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown


When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings


The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown


Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb



If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


He conquers who endures. ~Persius


Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com




I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com




It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life


People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown


Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare


The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius


But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.