Quotes About Perseverance

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, "Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!

mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve.

It's always too soon to quit!

as Confucius says, "Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

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Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale

I don't believe in defeat'.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.

Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.

You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the arm. They're shouting for you, she said with a smile. But I could never have done it, he objected, without everyone else's help. That may be true, said Reason gravely, but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

But I could never have done it,' he objected, 'without everyone else's help.' 'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.

here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you." He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own. Then, with a last word of encouragement, he and the Dodecahedron (who was simultaneously sobbing, frowning, pining, and sighing from four of his saddest faces) made their farewells and watched as the three tiny figures disappeared into the forbidding Mountains of Ignorance.