Quotes About Perseverance

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.