Quotes About Persistence

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

Rome was not built in a day.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Conquer but never triumph.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

If there is no wind, row.

We will either find a way, or make one.