Quotes About Perseverance

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Grace will complete what grace begins. God does not abandon his work in an incomplete state." WILLIAM JONES

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave -- now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks -- tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

It has been said that it's hard to stop a man who knows he's in the right and just keeps on coming. Smoke knew he was right - and he kept on coming.

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was feeling the effects of time. "Here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring will give way," Jefferson grumbled in a note to Adams. He could no longer walk very far, although he tried to ride two or three hours a day.

My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

Buck, the heart is a rubber ball. No matter how hard it's crushed, it bounces back.