Quotes About Perseverance

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

With fingers weary and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat in unwomanly ragsPlying her needle and thread—Stitch! stitch! stitch!In poverty, hunger, and dirt.

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for....

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Have you ever noticed those people whom you see jogging day after day? They are the ones who seem not to need to jog. But that's why they are fit. Those who are wealthy work at staying financially fit. But those who are not financially fit do little to change their status.

Be tough … life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sangfroid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.