Quotes About Perseverance

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Patience is the art of hoping.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Do not let your picture of the whole of your life confuse you, do not dwell upon all the manifold troubles which have come to pass and will come to pass; but ask yourself in regard to every passing moment: what is there here that cannot be borne and cannot be endured? Then remind yourself that it is not the future or the past that weighs heavy upon you, but always the present, and that this gradually grows less. (Meditations, VIII, 36)

The man prepared to die will not be beaten cheaply.

The real work of startups is about as sexy and fun as a root canal and about as natural as a jolly rancher. Founding

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ?— ?Winston Churchill

There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Ceder a los caprichos de un paciente solo sirve para que le tome el gusto a estar enfermo, esa es la verdad pura y dura.

I told her funny stories about our mother. How once she tried and tried to open a bag of Granny Goose potato chips, then gave up. "Life is just too damn hard," she said and tossed the bag over her shoulder.

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

C'è chi viene portato alla meta da un vento veloce, e chi, al contrario, si macera in un'insopportabile bonaccia. C'è

Tough people don't die easily. You'll be surprised how much it takes to kill a strong human being.

I had survived that; I would survive this; survival did not mean enjoyment.

Everything that's worth having in life hurts like the devil. There's no way round that.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.