Quotes About Perseverance

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Turn your scars into stars

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Problems are never real problems unless they cause you to take your eye off your goals. When a negative reaction threatens you, look over and beyond the problem.

Success is never final, failure is never ending

Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

end up paying an awful price. The way to handle your area of poverty is to say, "I need help.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.

Battle against obscurity

There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually get up to a place where they are received as an equal among respectable intellectuals. Here they find warmth and comfort for their pride, and here the struggle ends, and a death of many years commences. They could have gone on living.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

No pains. No gains

If little labour, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

The only glory to be had was the glory of surviving.

Until I get the keys to the Kingdom, Lord, I ain't giving up.

You can get so that every step, every little obstacle on the battlefield, becomes so big that you can't see much past it, and when you do get past, it's sometimes hard to remember what the hell you were supposed to be doing.