Quotes About Perseverance

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Hay una fuerza motriz más poderosa que el vapor, la electricidad y la energía atómica: la voluntad (Albert Einstein)

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them I did it myself.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. " – Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

If you tell a fish you can't climb a tree, then it will think he/she is dumb forever

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

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

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Again, simply declaring your goal won't help you attain your dream, but unless you declare it—unless you believe in it—you have no chance of attaining it.

This might sound extreme, perhaps even a little deranged, but I don't think you can make it to the very top rank in any sport if you don't have a similar aversion to losing—a visceral, physical loathing. I look for this trait in an athlete, although the hatred of losing has to be balanced by a certain degree of realism, an ability to step back just enough so that you can process your disappointing performance and learn from it.

Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

At thirty-eight I was a poor, struggling, tired, overworked, unknown journalist. Now, at fifty... He paused modestly and made a little gesture, moving his fat hands outwards, away from one another, and expanding his fingers as though in demonstration. He was exhibiting himself. Denis thought of that advertisement of Nestle's milk—the two cats on the wall, under the moon, one black and thin, the other white, sleek, and fat. Before Inspiration and after.

Librarse de todo lo desagradable en lugar de aprender a soportarlo. Si es más noble soportar en el alma las pedradas o las flechas de la mala fortuna, o bien alzarse en armas contra un piélago de pesares y acabar con ellos enfrentándose a los mismos... Pero ustedes no hacen ni una cosa ni otra. Ni soportan ni resisten. Se limitan a abolir las pedradas y las flechas. Es demasiado fácil.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.