Quotes About Perseverance

Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin

It's quite interesting to note that Townes's colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead

Don't sleep through your dreams.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?

I'm useless. I quit everything I try.' 'That doesn't make you useless. It means you haven't quit on finding the thing that's right for you.

Compassion is not weakness. Enduring is not living. And belligerence is not strength.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.

He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same

I've seen fire and I've seen rainI've seen sunny days that I thought would never endI've seen lonely times when I could not find a friendBut I always thought that I'd see you again.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.

Before the creation of the welfare state, immigrants who came to this country were for the most part attracted by America's reputation as a land of freedom and opportunity. Laws and customs that then prevailed required immigrants to carve out their individual destinies by their own labor, perseverance, intelligence, and determination.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

A veces tienes que perder para ganar.

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever''.

Às vezes você tem que perder pra ganhar.

Not timid, not even hopeless, but steady and holding its place. Refusing to pull back from the world.