Quotes on Perseverance

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.