Quotes About Perseverance

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.

You can lose everything in life,but not dreams.

The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

if we never try, we shall never succeed.

October} 13th [1862] (To McClellan) ...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke...

Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous 'Pennsylvania optimism' I've heard so much about...

Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life.

Must is the word... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

this too shall pass

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

Hãy cho tôi 6 gi? ?? ??n h? má»™t cái cây. Tôi s? dùng 4 gi? ??u tiên ?? mài rìu

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." ?

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

January] 26th. [1863] ...and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.