Quotes About Perseverance

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn on the lights, prepare for the day, and wait for people to walk in and hand them money.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him . . . he had gone after life again and they had shown him life and made him eat it.

So they locked me up," Danskin said. "I feigned madness. I babbled, I recited Heine. Nine years. Here I am." They rode in silence for a while. "But you're still pissed off." "Now more than ever.

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Sukces przypomina troch? zapasy z gorylem. Nie przestajesz, kiedy jeste? zm?czony. Rezygnujesz dopiero, gdy zm?czony jest goryl.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Milt Copulos, a friend of Jim Webb, spent three and a half years in the hospital and received the last rites seven times as a result of his Vietnam service. He put it this way: "There's a wall ten miles high and fifty miles thick between those of us who went and those who didn't, and that wall is never going to come down.

Hemingway writes of people becoming stronger in the broken places, which is a heartening thought, and sometimes true. All too often, though, it belongs in the file that Jim Webb labeled typical Hemingway bullshit.

Though everything will seem dark to you now, remember that even behind the darkest clouds of night there shines the moon of dawn.

boots on. We're goin' after the devils.

some time. Been prayin' for 'im, though. You

Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")

Robert W. Creamer

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

It's easy to cry that you're beaten — and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight — Why, that's the best game of them all! And though you come out of each gruelling bout, All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have one more try — it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

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