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Quotes About Perseverance

I can stand anything I have to stand!
~ Wallace Stegner
I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
~ Wallace Stegner
but she's as blunt as a splitting maul." She thinks about that, walking again.
~ Wallace Stegner
Whatever we thought about art and its relation to life, we knew that the Faulkner motto we had adopted in harder times no longer served. "They kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit" was no watchword for this world so full of interest, instruction, suggestiveness, possibility,
~ Wallace Stegner
We all hitched our wagons to the highest stars we could find.
~ Wallace Stegner
But the day that had started crooked insisted on going crooked, like a cross-threaded screw.
~ Wallace Stegner
That have I borne, this can I bear also.
~ Wallace Stegner
She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.
~ Wallace Stegner
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
~ Wallace Stevens
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.
~ Wallace Stevens
After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
~ Wallace Stevens
After the final no there come a yes, and on that yes a future world depends.
~ Wallace Stevens
Tras el ultimo "NO" viene un "sí". Y de ese sí depende el porvenir del mundo.
~ Wallace Stevens
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
~ Wallis Simpson
Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.
~ Wally Amos
Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.
~ Walt Disney
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
~ Walt Disney
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
~ Walt Disney
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
~ Walt Disney
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
~ Walt Disney
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
~ Walt Disney
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
~ Walt Disney
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
~ Walt Disney
I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome
~ Walt Frazier