Quotes About Perseverance

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

Jangan sia-siakan waktu anda untuk ragu-ragu dan takut. Laksanakanlah pekerjaan yang ada di depan mata, sebab tugas asaat ini yang dilaksanakan dengan sebaik-baiknya akan menjadi persiapan terbaik untuk masa-masa yang akan datang.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.

If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry

We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.

Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

Features well cured make us strong.