Quotes About Perseverance

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.