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Quotes About Perseverance

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
~ Henry Kaiser
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
~ Democritus
Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.
~ Ludacris
Life is a lemon and I want my money back.
~ Meat Loaf
My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.
~ Dorothy Arzner
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
~ Tim Robbins
Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.
~ Sheryl Crow
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
~ Kirk Douglas
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.
~ Dick Bennett
My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.
~ Joan Benoit
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
~ Ray Davies
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Hope burns eternal in the human heart.
~ O.R. Melling
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.
~ Augustus William Hare
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
~ Plato
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
~ Ayn Rand
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
~ Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
~ G.K. Chesterton
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.
~ Neil Diamond
Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.
~ Alanis Morissette
Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.
~ Garth Brooks