Quotes About Perseverance

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.

I feel like Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave: "You will I eat last." To this Blumenfeld remarked on the telephone with a comforting quick wit: But Odysseus was not eaten, and it was Polyphemus who came to a bad end. […]

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

Days almost done. One more I have won.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

In my child's homework: Which of the following happens eventually? a) You are born, b) You die, c) A long winter comes to an end, d) Practice makes perfect. I no longer know how to answer this.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

There is always a solution to any challenging situation.

You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.