Quotes About Persistence

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

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

one must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it.

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluß: nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, der täglich sie erobern muß.

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.

Not Art and Science serve, alone; Patience must in the work be shown. Long is the calm brain active in creation; Time, only, strengthens the fine fermentation.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

In the midst of death life persists.