Quotes About Perseverance

And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Time is generally the best doctor.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Courage conquers all things.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

In moderation, goals and other external motivators are powerful, but when they become the exclusive drives to do anything, it's overwhelming.

I don't think we [ Black Sabbath ] ever got a good review for anything we did. Which is why I never bother with reviews.

We'd recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.

He [dad] always had some kind of trouble with his leg. He'd have bandages wrapped around it all the time but he'd never go and see a doctor. He'd rather have dropped dead than go to a doctor. He was terrified of them, like a lot of people his age were. And he'd never take a day off work. If he ever stayed at home feeling ill, it was time to call the undertaker.

Never in a million years did I think I'd end up making a career out of singing. I didn't think it was possible. As far as I knew, the only way I could make any dough was to go and work in a factory, like everyone else in Aston. Or rob a f**king bank.

Taking five or ten or fifteen years to make an album, like Guns N' Roses did, is just f**king ridiculous, end of story. By that time, your career's died, been resurrected, and then died again.

I was twenty now, and had given up all hope of being a singer or ever getting out of Aston. PA system or no PA system, it wasn't going to happen. I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I told myself. 'You can't even play an instrument, so what hope d'you have?'

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Bit by bit, the sparrow builds its nest.

Don't just plan to write—write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

Your brain can only absorb what your ass can endure.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.