Quotes About Perseverance

Suffering is the finest teacher", said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

we have to give are best or die

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Give me six minutes to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.