Quotes About Perseverance

You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

Hiç vazgeçme bozac?. Bu kuleler, betonlar aras?nda kim al?r deme. Sen hep geç sokaklardan." "Ben k?yamete kadar boza sataca??m," dedi Mevlut.

May God bless all that you touch, sister," I would say so that Mevlut would learn that if you want to survive in this jungle, you have to make certain compromises, so that he would understand that if you want to be rich, you must be prepared to grovel.

U ovoj zemlji jedino kukavice opstaju. Ali svaka kukavica ?itav život sanjari kako ?e se jednoga dana preobraziti u junaka, nije li tako?

Life can't be all that bad. Whatever happens, I can always take along the Bosphorus.

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education," it was said by Professor Huxley, "is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly." Doing

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is but perseverance in disguise.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Don't think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of to-day began poor. The chances are you would be ruined if you had capital.

The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.

Opportunity becomes invisible to those who are doing nothing, or looking somewhere else for it.

You must have birds in your heart, Madam, before you can find them in the bushes

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

I've never found any elevators in life; I've had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go. I

The moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith in yourself, you capitulate to the enemy. Every time you acknowledge weakness, inefficiency, or lack of ability, you weaken your self-confidence, and that is to undermine the very foundation of all achievement.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.

No, there is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Let the adverse breath of criticism be to you only what the blast of the storm wind is to the eagle,—a force against him that lifts him higher.