Quotes About Perseverance

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.

That's what a man does—he takes a look at the cards life deals out, and he doesn't give up and he doesn't whine about his sorry lot. He hunkers down and figures out what he can do with them.

Haz la guerra! Haz la guerra a tu cobardía, a tu pereza, a tu ignorancia, a tu presunción, a tu dolor. Haz la guerra primero, y el amor os será dado

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

I bend but do not break.

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

No está cubierto de flores el camino a la gloria

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Hoe snel de politieke en sociale veranderingen zich ook voltrekken, het belet u niet om te leven, aan andere dingen te denken of aan helemaal niets, te wandelen in de bossen, te zwemmen in zee, het theater of de opera te bezoeken, boeken te lezen, u te vermaken en te lachen. Terwijl stormen en omwentelingen om me heen razen, zet ik mijn weg gewoon verder. Tijdens de werken blijft de zaak geopend.

On gratte, on gratte, et puis très vite on respire mal, on sue, il commence à faire terriblement chaud

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

Lincoln responded: I have just received your dispatch of 1 p.m. yesterday. —I begin to see it. You will succeed. — God bless you all. A. LINCOLN6

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

It's a bit traumatic," she noted, "to see your father, who took long walks with you, sailed with you, could out-jump you, and suddenly you look up and you see him walking on crutches—trying, struggling in heavy steel braces. And you see the sweat down his face, and you hear him saying, 'I must get down the driveway today—all the way down the driveway.

When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.

Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.