Quotes About Perseverance

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

Doors of the future are open to those who know how to push them

The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.