Quotes About Perseverance

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his "A" string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your "A" string snap and finish on three strings.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.

You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

There isn't a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.

The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

Stresul implicat in lupta ia totdeauna sfirsit cind te predai.

Schrijven is stratenmaken: op je knieën liggen en achteruit kruipen.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Believe and you're halfway there.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Harry Shapiro

All the lights couldn't put out the dark Runnin' through my heart

I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.