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Quotes About Perseverance

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
~ Napoleon Hill
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
~ Randy Travis
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
~ Mark Twain
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
~ Elvis Presley
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dream Chaser
It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
~ Seth Godin
Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.
~ Rita Rudner
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
~ Mitch Albom
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
~ Richard Taverner
Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
~ Graeme Base
After rain comes fair weather.
~ James Howell
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.
~ Richard Branson
its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable
~ Suzanne Collins
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.
~ James Dwight Dana
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
~ Jeff Baena
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
~ Jewel
My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.
~ Lynda Obst
I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.
~ Sarah Carter
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
~ Mark Twain
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
~ Alice Walker