Quotes About Perseverance

Her father was slowly dying of stomach cancer while she was writing her series, and this might have further embittered her toward Rockefeller

Instead of chiding him, John steadily advanced more money in 1884, retired his debts, provided income for his family, and rallied his bruised spirits, saying, "Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and bye.

as if growing more accustomed to the burden that she bore and more reconciled to Bill's absences.

He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored—whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast Guard—despite years of complaints and bitter smears.

Never sure of himself, Junior plodded ahead, always wondering where he was heading.

Having weathered thirty years of assaults in the courts and statehouses, he must have felt invulnerable.

Frank advised his friend not to sell under any circumstances.

No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.

The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible. . . . In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty. . . . To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

and Junius desperately bought them to prop up the price, nearly wiping himself out.

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

At one point, Bill suggested that if John didn't find work he might have to return to the country; the thought of such dependence upon his father made "a cold chill" run down his spine, Rockefeller later said.27 Because he approached his job hunt devoid of any doubt or self-pity, he could stare down all discouragement. "I was working every day at my business—the business of looking for work. I put in my full time at this every day.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

I ran out of strong.

You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

Since I've been pretty much treading water all day, the marquee of the Rialto Theatre looks like the prow of a ship coming to save me.

Animals never cry. They don't go to pieces and call somebody and go through a box of Kleenex an hour.

Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it.

all the while remembering what it had felt like when the world you knew had up and vanished, and you needed to find something to bring that world back, and you weren't sure that you could.

Do this one thing.

a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.