Quotes About Perseverance

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Grafton, Massachusetts, in early 1842, while working solo, Douglass was met by mob hostility in addition to an unwelcoming clergy. So he went to a hotel and borrowed a "dinner-bell, with which in hand I passed through the principal streets," he recalled, "ringing the bell and crying out, 'Notice! Frederick Douglass, recently a slave, will lecture on American Slavery, on Grafton Common, this evening at 7 o'clock."13

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff's characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: "It's a thing you don't talk about—not until you're well along with it. There are so many things that can go wrong with writing. I don't want to be one of those pseudo-literary people who are always writing something they never finish, or talking about writing something that they never start.

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

You mustn't let bullies get you down.

You can't go on running forever…" "And you can't go on…" Alfie desperately searched for the right word, "…mopedding* forever!

Never complain, even if you are in great pain.

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Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis

David Walliams

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carry him. That fateful afternoon the boy vowed that he would never ever

Now! 4 Dirty Business

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Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis'. Translate that from the Latin, boy!

Lance is a role model known for determination, integrity, and a spirit that never gives up. There is no better ambassador for quality and trusted information.

love is everlasting… It survived rainy days to mud puddles, runny noses to snot bubbles. Having love was one thing, but true love was another… You could always go buy another box, but broken crayons still colored.

struggle and striving always came before success, even in the dictionary.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred.