Quotes About Perseverance

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal

Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

Character is what can do without success.

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 course, 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.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Lathi goli khayenge, phir bhi Bambai layenge

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

It will come all right in the end.

Let come what comes, Let go what goes, See what remains.

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required. (p. 27)

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously!