Quotes About Perseverance

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

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Max E. Anders

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

At De Pauw I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—Writing.

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

You may be amazed at how tough you can become with a little practice – and that will be an extra reward of the risk-taker's way of life.

Yet both Langlais and 'Bruno' were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.

Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak.

Yet they persevered because a lethal cocktail of pride, fatalism, stupidity, and moral weakness prevented them from acknowledging their blunder.

The cost in men and ships Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ran up a score which Irish eyes a-smiling on the day of Allied victory were not going to cancel

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef

In the way of all men, once the danger was past, they forgot the hardships and looked forward to the good things in life once more.

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

Work hard in your calling.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.