Quotes About Perseverance

Unnapudu Ashwadinchaleni Vadiki, Lenapudu Badhapade Arahata Ledu!

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

His body had thrown a bewildering array of kicks and strikes at the punching bag, most of which he was sure had hurt him more than they would have damaged any real-world assailant.

Si no encuentras personas nobles con las que caminar en la vida, camina en solitario como el elefante

Your greatest accomplishment in life will be living through it. That is perhaps not precisely the understanding that you are wanting to hear but I assure you, master, when you come close to dying, you will appreciate that answer.

Torn pages curl and brown. The flames fly up. In the flickering light a cry. Who will lift the fallen stones? Who will link the broken chain?

I know I've got to work twice as hard as everybody else because I've got twice the distance to run just to catch up.

Someone will employ us," I say. "I wouldn't fight so hard if I didn't believe that someone wasn't out there." I pause and then it hits me. "Me either." And I mean it.

Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

In Silicon Valley, most engineers work on projects that will never be completed- this holds true at large companies as well as small. If engineers are lucky enough to witness the rare day when the product is completed and launched, they will, in the overwhelming majority of cases, witness the product's failure in the marketplace.

his own willingness to practice Morse code "about 18 hours a day." (Edison's capacity for extended bursts of work would be his principal vanity his entire life.) This intensive tutelage soon enabled him to become a professional telegraph operator.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.

Old Demonology: '... And so forth. Not that success, for him, is sure, infallible But never has he been afraid to reach. His lesions are legion. But reaching is his rule.' - Gwendolyn Brooks

Laying another log on the fire of failure

There is a significant difference between feeling like a failure and admitting failure. The first can be a driving force; the second is the relinquishment of all effort, and therefore all hope. DeMarco understood this in his bones but had never articulated it to himself or anybody else. It had taken Thomas Huston to put it into words for him. They had been sitting on

Beckett's famous existential cry at the end of The Unnamable, which he now quoted aloud, just as he had many times throughout his life: "'You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Hard times destroy the weak and strengthen the strong. Soft times weaken everyone.

Please don't take my wings...