Quotes About Perseverance

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOW

That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Success is achieved by those who try.

book Cycles, co-authored by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin.

Thought must be followed through by action.

As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.

Yet to get to your destination, whatever it may be, it is necessary to go to the end.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

After a storm there is fair weather, after sorrow there is joy.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Then Ardent, heavy hearted, turned away; sore for the rusted armor and the wasted days: but as Sir Constant saw his shield, and lo! the lost Emblem of the King was shining once more through its veil of dishonor. For the heart's tears of sorrow had fallen upon the shield, and where they had fallen they had burned away the shame and stain.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

The timid and the fainthearted, and people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

Success is not granted to the talented, rather it is reserved for the doggedly tenacious.

We'll sing and dance and suffer and die, but we'll make lives here. Which is what existence is all about, isn't it?