Pressure Quotes - Page 3

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

Napoléon Bonaparte

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

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

Anonymous

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Margaret Fuller

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

Anne Shannon Monroe

One can go a long way after one is tired.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

Anonymous

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Douglas V. Steere

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

Cy Young

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

Barbara Aronstein Black

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

General George S. Patton

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

Anonymous

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.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

Anonymous

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.

Bible

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Ancient Buddhist proverb

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

Anonymous

I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

Slow and steady wins the race.

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.

E. Lamar Kincaid

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.

Lewis E Presnall

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Make haste slowly.

Augustus

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Hoagy Carmichael

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?

William Stafford

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

Alcmaeon

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

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.

Katharine Hepburn

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

All is well that ends well.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

Richard L. Evans

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

G.K. Chesterton

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.

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

Lucretius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Live with no time out.

Simone de Beauvoir

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Anonymous

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