Defeat
never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not
lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying
them - every day begin the task anew.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
The
person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and
aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. *
-- Cecil B. De Mille
Be
ambitious! You will never achieve anything greater than you set your sights upon.
Great endeavors do not just happen, they are undertaken by average people who
gain a vision of how to make the impossible possible.”
-- John Di Frances
Don't let adversity
become an obstacle. Let adversity spur you on to devise creative approaches and
solutions.
-- John Di Frances
To
succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
--Tony Dorsett
Our greatest
weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just
one more time.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Nearly
every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible,
and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
--
Thomas A. Edison
“I
am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
"Genius
is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas
Edison (1847-1931) U.S. inventor
*
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--
Albert Einstein |
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“Perseverance is
not a long race; it is many short races one after the other”
-- Walter Elliot
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All great masters are chiefly
distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step
in a continuous line.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson *
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt the pace
of nature: her secret is patience."
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
Progress
is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
" I found that
if I could find the energy then I could find the determination to keep on going.
I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself,
I can do it, I can do it, and I can do it."
-- Jon Erickson
Don't
let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-- Richard L. Evans
Success
seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
-- William
Feather
Vitality
shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
--
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He
who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work
with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only
to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
-- John Foster
| “I always tell
my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling,
if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you
gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”
-- Morgan
Freeman *
“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
-- Morgan
Freeman |
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There are no
mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
-- Robert Fripp
“Stay the course,
light a star, Change the world where'er you are.”
-- Richard Le Gallienne
“Success consists of getting
up just one more time than you fall.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
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*
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities,
and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.
~ Jane
Goodall |
"The way to succeed
is never quit. That’s it. But really be humble about it."
-- Alex Haley
There's
only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
-- Brian Hays
There
may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as
a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Failure
leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Success
is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.
--Robert
M. Hensel
"If
at first you don't succeed, try, try, again."
--
William Edward Hickson
“Edison
failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged
if you fail a few times.”
-- Napoleon Hill
"
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
-- Napoleon Hill
The
majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating
new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-- Napoleon Hill
Success
seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes,
but they don't quit.
-- Conrad Hilton
“I
am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed:
and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times
I fail and keep trying.”
-- Tom Hopkins
"Persistence
prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects
force enough to overflow onward.”
-- Vernon Howard
“A
little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.”
--Elbert Hubbard
Press
on! A better fate awaits thee.
-- Victor Hugo
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
Boys,
there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole
life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that
if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
-- Lee Iacocca
It
is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing
up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through
a thousand obstacles.
-- Washington Irving
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