Quotes About Perseverance

I am too young to hold on, but too old to give up.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!

It's not what you go through that defines you; you can't help that. It's what you do AFTER you've gone through it that really tests who you are.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Dont cross the stream to find water.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Its not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.