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Quotes About Perseverance

I decline to accept the end of man.
~ William Faulkner
There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.
~ Joan Bennett Kennedy
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
~ Billy Joel
Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.
~ John Sculley
A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
~ Ayn Rand
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.
~ Paul Henderson
How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?
~ Roger McGuinn
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
~ Alan Bennett
Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.
~ Bob Dylan
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
~ William Wordsworth
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
~ Jamie Sives
It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Bad news is just an excuse.
~ Neil Young
Man errs as long as he strives.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
~ Ludwig Lewisohn
I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.
~ William Shakespeare
For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.
~ Elvis Costello
We live ruins amid ruins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche