Quotes About Perseverance

We are not building this country of ours for a day. It is to last through the ages.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world's end to world's end

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

Fate ciò che potete, con ciò che avete, dove siete.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Believe you can and you are halfway there

nearly forty hours in the saddle, changing horses five times

believe you can and you're already halfway there

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace, is to be the first consideration in their eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield to any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.

Nothing of value comes without effort.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

It is far better to dare mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to dwell with those poor and timid souls knowing neither victory nor defeat.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

F? ce po?i cu ce ai, acolo unde e?ti.