Perseverance Quotes
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"Never, never, never give in!"
"There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself."
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain."
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"When things go wrong, don't go with them."
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."
"Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves."
"I’m just going to keep plugging away until I find success—or an electrical socket that works. This is the secret to gaining worldly power."
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."
"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."
"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying"
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
"You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle")"
"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."
"If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."
"Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong."
"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."
"Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too."
"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."
"Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You."
"The devil's happy when the critics run you off."
"One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage."
"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
"It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying."
"I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again"
"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."
"What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up."
"No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!"
"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W."
"First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how."
"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!"
"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."
"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."
"Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with."
"If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?"
"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
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