Quotes About Perseverance

Had he known what lay ahead, it seems doubtful that he would have persevered.

He was not a man to abandon a project that had received his blessing.

It often saves me much annoyance.

One could now see in his face the subdued melancholy of a man who had sacrificed too much for work.

At first, Rockefeller swallowed his anger and stoically endured this injustice.

The whole dismal parade of career hacks and self-promoting political generals on the Union side had been weeded out, giving way to a new fighting breed.

From the outset, the young Hamilton had phenomenal stamina for sustained work: ambitious, orphaned boys do not enjoy the option of idleness.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

What God had taken away, it seems, could never be perfectly restored.

Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty.

and awaited instructions.

She never entirely recuperated.

winning at any cost.

Her hardships tapped some deep reserve of strength and wisdom in the simple country woman

but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

Whatever his own discomfort, Rockefeller made an excellent impression.

We will let it simmer" was a saying John employed throughout his business career.

George Washington always demonstrated a capacity to learn from missteps. "Errors once discovered are more than half amended," he liked to say. "Some men will gain as much experience in the course of three or four years as some will in ten or a dozen.

Rockefeller decided he had had enough.

Mama is beautiful," I said. "Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever." "What about the old people?" "They are the strongest of all, for they have lived longer than all of us, and they have wisdom," he said, tapping his temple.

Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy

But being uncomfortable is a virtue, not a hindrance.

Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you're from, especially if you're from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.