Quotes About Perseverance

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.