Quotes About Perseverance

people face Death and even go a piece with him and then wrestle with him and get away, thank the Lord, and return. Yes, but how many have I seen pass on and

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Character is that which can do without success.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;--debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.