Quotes About Perseverance

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife A sinking feeling in my mind and heart. How difficult the means are to be found By which the primal sources may be breached; And long before the halfway point is reached, They bury a poor devil in the ground.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man schöne Dinge bauen.

Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.

one must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it.

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings.

Human nature," I continued, "has its limitations. It can bear joy and suffering, and pain to a certain degree, but perishes when this point is passed. Here there can therefore be no question of whether a man is strong or weak, but of whether he can endure his suffering, be it moral or physical. And I find it just as astonishing to say that a man who takes his own life is a coward, as it would be improper to call a man a coward who dies of a pernicious fever.

Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;

No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.

Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success