Quotes About Perseverance

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Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

The ability to keep going even when things look bleak, when you feel beaten, and to fight off the sense of loss and despair. Whatever the reason. The will to survive might just get you through a disaster that claims scores of other lives.

It wounded me enough to ground me, but not so much as to knock all the life out of me.

Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.

The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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 supreme.

It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

But as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

you're much more persistent when you're confident in your abilities.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

They will commit to reversing the vicious cycle even if that means living less comfortably.