Quotes About Perseverance

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

The reward of pain is experience.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

The reward of suffering is experience

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.