Quotes About Perseverance

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a wall.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you´ll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road

How many no's am I willing to accept on my way to success?

The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

The number of times I succeed is directly proportional to the number of times I can fail, and keep trying !

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." ~ Colin Powell

Their ultimate "strokes of genius" don't come about because they succeed more often than other people—they just do more, period.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. —Theodore Roosevelt,

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

Ik had gedacht dat ik hem zomaar mocht opslaan in duizend lege beelden en toch vrijuit kon gaan. Maar hier en nu, in dit compartiment, in deze voortdenderende trein, schokten de duizend beelden over elkaar heen en vielen trillend samen. Hun collectieve leegte was zo smartelijk dat ik die moest vullen. Tot elke prijs. Als ik dat niet deed, zo voelde ik, zou ik ten onder gaan. Want het was een leegte die niemand kon verdragen.

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Life is like a sewer - you get out of it what you put into it.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat axe," said Moses in response to the new challenges. "I'm just going to keep right on building. You do the best you can to stop it.

The road to success is through constant blundering. —COLONEL FRANCIS W. PARKER

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.