Pressure Quotes - Page 2

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

Plodding wins the race.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".

Slow motion gets you there faster.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

If at first you don't succeed try try try again.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Pressure makes diamonds

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Our task is not to yield to the pressure of our environment

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Daniel: So, how are you?Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?

We're constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren't any better than us. I'm as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the supermarket and I instantly downgrade that lady to Shitty Parent status. I feel pressure to live up to a parental ideal that no one probably has ever achieved. I feel pressure to raise a group of human beings that will help America kick the shit out of Finland and South Korea in the world math rankings. I feel pressure to shield my kids from the trillion pages of hentai donkey porn out there on the Internet. I feel pressure to make the insane amounts of money needed for a supposedly 'middle-class' upbringing for the kids, an upbringing that includes a house and college tuition and health care and so many other expenses that you have to be a multimillionaire to afford it. PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would otherwise never exist.And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it

Slow and steady wins the race.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.

Make haste slowly.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.