 |
"If you're walking
down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make
progress. "
-- Barack
Obama *
Making
your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's
not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure
along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you
won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you
learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
-- Barack
Obama |
Spring
passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's
exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and
one remembers one's perseverance.
-- Yoko Ono
To
have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals --
this alone is worth the struggle.
-- Sir William Osler
 | *
“The harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
-- Thomas Paine. |
“The harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man
that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave
by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart
is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death.”
-- Thomas Paine.
" I've always
made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit
trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
-- Arnold Palmer
Let
me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in
my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur
“There
is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move
mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all
the great storms in your life.”
-Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
"
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Formulate and
stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold
this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop
the picture. Do not build obstacles in your imagination. Do not be awestruck by
other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
 |
*
You have
to dream, you have to have a vision and you have to set a goal for yourself that
might even scare you a little at times because sometimes that seems far beyond
your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection,
and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way. Tough times don’t last,
tough people do...
-- Gregory
Peck
|
He
conquers who endures.
-- Persius
|
*
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
-- Pablo
Picasso |  |
If you have made
mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call
failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
Your
biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right
time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.
--
Arthur Pine
Never
discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--
Plato
“Perseverance
is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when
they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
-- Plutarch
|
*
"I
think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure
in spite of overwhelming obstacles. "
-- Christopher
Reeve *
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and
then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
-- Christopher
Reeve "What
I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability
to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to
be a ‘Superman’ to do it."
-- Christopher
Reeve |  |
“I do not think
there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality
of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
-- John D.
Rockefeller
How long should
you try? Until.”
-- Jim Rohn
 |
When you come to the end
of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt *
It is
common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try
another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
*
" There
are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has
the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the
average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a
man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their
fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree."
-- Theodore
Roosevelt | |
 |
Both
now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief
in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
-- Andrei
Sakharov
|
| When
I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I
did ten times more work.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
*
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe
in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw
| 
|
“Pay no attention
to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”
--
Jean Sibelius
You
may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly
Sills
Saints are
sinners who kept on going.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
*
"When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though
you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the
place and time that the tide will turn."
-- Harriet
Beecher Stowe | 
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