Quotes About Perseverance

What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to submit or yeild.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.