Quotes About Perseverance

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.