#vera

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#average #mediocrity #creation

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end. ↗

— Louis Sachar

#inspirational #perseverance #dreams

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#humour #iq-tests #maths #math

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering. ↗

— James Buchan

#blew #center #conveyed #least #messages

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable ↗

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

#perseverance #success #goal-setting

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. ↗

— Kent M. Keith

#love #perseverance #love

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#perseverance #writing #perseverance

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ↗

— Alphonse Allais

#coffee #drank #puts #sleep

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. ↗

— William Cobbett

#men #much #oftener #perseverance #talent