Perseverance Quotes - Page 2

Many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

William Shakespeare

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing at whatever cost must be attained.

You can do what you want to do accomplish what you want to accomplish attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it if you will to do it if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holler

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann von Goethe

We conquer by continuing.

George Matheson

When you stop talking you've lost your customer.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

Until I die I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

Clara McBride Hale

Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles F. Kettering

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.

Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.

Anonymous

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann von Goethe

Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.

Maria Weston Chapman

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your space can be filled with what is new and maybe even upgraded." Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

The future glory far outweigh the present troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

The person who is wrapped up in God keeps moving. That is the difference between a Spirit on fire and a Spirit that's burning out. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Eddie Capparucci

I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence, and the person seems but a shadow of what they were, under the endless barrage, in the end when laid to rest, the dignity, compassion and presence of the person somehow endures, and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,and the light of their truth,Is brilliantly lit and once more born.

We don't posses time. But we can own whatever we do with it.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Stay up... 'till you come up... when you come up stay up!

Johnnie Dent Jr.

The world of possibilities await the person who dares.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't know what to do, do what you know and soon, what you're supposed to do will feel more appealing.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

I study the chessboard and concede defeat."You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.

Haruki Murakami

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

Perseverance and gratefulness makes hope closer to the blessing.

Toba Beta

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

Mario Fernández

Stick in and do my best.

It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known.

Israelmore Ayivor

All you can try to do is be better than you were yesterday, everyday.

Marcus Harrison Green

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Mary Pope Osborne

Often, people give up without knowing success was just around the corner; if they had only preserved a little longer, if they had only tried one more time, they could have succeed.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Plato

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance.

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Bob Goff

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

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