Pressure Quotes - Page 6

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

Ernest Hemingway

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

I bend but I do not break.

Jean de La Fontaine

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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.

Anonymous

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Men do not fail they stop trying.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

Sir Frederick Treves

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.

Polybius

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

James J. Corbett

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

Anonymous

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

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

Plodding wins the race.

Aesop

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

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

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