Quotes About Perseverance

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

"Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.