You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on. — John Lewis
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. — Richard DeVos
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn
Short Push Quotes
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. — Larry Bird
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God — Kendrick Lamar
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. — Travis Rice
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt
Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. — Byron Katie
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides. — Dylan Thomas
Push Image Quotes
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. — Abraham Kuyper
I like people who push the envelope. — Norman Reedus
The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope. — Vicki Lawrence
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Final Push Quotes
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever. — John Glenn
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative. — Shaun White
To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling — Darren Shan
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs! — Calvin Trillin
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. — Berenice Abbott
The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV. — Kaley Cuoco
Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you. — Mitali Perkins
Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself. — Gerhard Richter
There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in. — Dara O Briain
This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good. — Deb Caletti
Motivational Push Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight. — Marcus Luttrell
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat. — Dan Gable
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow. — Ray Bradbury
When you can produce measurable, replicable results, it builds confidence and motivates you to keep pushing forward. — Jay Shetty
If your friends don't push you to be your best, you need new ones.
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. — Mary Lou Retton
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated. — James Clear
I started with Bitcoin and I left Bitcoin not because I was pushed out… I left Bitcoin because there’s no way to use Bitcoin to do the things that I wanted to do. — Charles Hoskinson
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. — Doris Brown Heritage
Don't Push Quotes
We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money. — Woody Hayes
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall — Tupac Shakur
Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams
Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing. — Tim Grover
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you! — Paula Radcliffe
Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. — Tim Grover
If your friends dont push you to be your best, you need new ones.
Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow. — Sylvie Guillem
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring. — Kate Beckinsale
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump
Push Ups Quotes
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. — Alan Watts
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. — Malcolm X
It's not about the end goal. It's about who you become by consistently pushing the edge of your limits.
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met. — Madeleine L'Engle
The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much. — Dan Buettner
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. — Daisaku Ikeda
Passion is pushing yourself when no one else is around.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It's better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all. — James Clear
It doesn’t pay to push the other party to their absolute limit. A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up. — Edward O. Thorp
I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person. — Vanessa Hudgens
Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around. — LeCrae
Push Harder Quotes
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. — Seymour Papert
Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think. — Lady Gaga
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers. — Mark Twight
Don't be pushed my your problems, be led by your dreams
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better. — Kawhi Leonard
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. — Howard Dean
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. — William Albert Allard
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder. — William Sigei
Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished. — David Chang
You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper. — Sly Stone
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically. — Ali Larter
Push And Pull Quotes
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. — Kara Walker
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress. — John Lewis
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. — Leonardo da Vinci
The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself. — Fernando Torres
I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong. — Seungri
If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise. — Jeanne Gang
Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times. — Randy Komisar
Greed pulls people in, and fear pushes them out. — Naved Abdali
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. — Raymond Chandler
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A Little Push Quotes
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. — Natsuki Takaya
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. — Angelina Jolie
Fear is not an option. It’s just a way to understand that you have to push yourself a little bit further. — Diane Von Furstenberg
When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment. — Ueli Steck
I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that. — Jermaine Dupri
You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together. — Andre Agassi
Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time. — Eric San
Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time. — Kid Koala
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. — Franz Kafka
We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward. — Justin Lin
Last Push Quotes
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. — Axl Rose
If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover. — Ronnie Coleman
When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust. — Elizabeth Streb
Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?' — Les Brown
Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing! — Tina Fey
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace. — Antonin Scalia
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate. — Elvis Stojko
Honestly, I believe that you are only as good as your last game. And so there were games and tournaments and days when I was like, "I'm probably the best player in the world." And there were some where I'm like, "Oh god, I'm terrible." I think that pushed me all the time. — Hayley Wickenheiser
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. — Henry Rollins
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. — Alberto Juantorena
Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home. — Snoop Dogg
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there. — Frank Zappa
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T. D. Jakes
We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. — Travis Rice
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. — Neil Gaiman
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge. — George Balanchine
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. — Carter G. Woodson
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest. — Hedy Lamarr
If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress. — G-Eazy
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama
The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does! — Saul Bass
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that. — Bill Hybels
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. — Michael Jordan
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