Quotes About Perseverance

I think you can never know what you can live without. I think you can never know what you will live through. Only when the disaster arrives and you are there does the depth of your real inner resources reveal itself, and not a moment before

I am built for this terrible pain, I told myself, and sent myself on my way.

It's nothin' to me, he said. We're none of us made right for this world. But we're still here, aren't we? And

If you put your mind to it, not as a school lesson but as a practical tool that you've got to master, you may find it a lot easier than you think.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ó and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ó persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all palisades, all fences, within which she is held captive!

He wished those at home who took such people for granted could see them now. They did not care about the cause or the reason, and none had come to this place of his own free will. They fought like lions, for each other, for the ship around them. It was their world. It was enough.

One place like another. That was true enough, he thought. Even the merchant seamen were the same. Every ship was the last. One more voyage, just enough pay and bounty saved, and it would be used to buy a little alehouse, a chandlery, a smallholding from some country squire. But it never seemed to happen, unless the man was thrown on the beach in peacetime, or rejected as a useless cripple. The sea always won in the end. The