Quotes tagged ‘Persevere’

“You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for two years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove not…”

— Angelo Pizzo, Fortune, Charles S. Dutton, imdb.com

“You don’t know the first thing about being an American. We’re misfits, outcasts, and we’re proud of it. If they attack in formation, we pop them off from the trees. If they challenge you to a duel, you raid their camp at night. And if they’re gonna hang you, you fight dirty and you never, ever give…”

— Grainne Godfree, Mick Rory / Heat Wave, Dominic Purcell, imdb.com

“Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.”

— Brad Kane, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com

“There is a recurring choice in life, and it occurs at the intersection of two roads. We arrive at this place again and again. And today, you get to choose.”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com

“Over time, you will reach a point on your journey when you are so far down your path that suddenly, you will look around to see that you have created a world and this world has created you - step by step, line by line, your dream in real life.”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“Some came today, Mrs. Jackson, to say good-bye to Michael. I came to say, thank you. Thank you because you never stopped. Thank you because you never gave up. Thank you because you never gave out. Thank you because you tore down divisions. Thank you because you eradicated barriers. Thank you because…”

— Al Sharpton, amazon.com

“Be happy. Persevere.”

— Dean Koontz, amazon.com

“[When told he might be in a wheelchair for life] All right! I can work with that too!”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry: Thus far and no further.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven, amazon.com

“Perseverance: it overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“Industry and patience are almost a genius; and successful people are often more distinguished for resolution and perseverance than for unusual gifts.”

— Amelia E. Barr, brainpickings.org

“It is better to have the opportunity of victory, than to be spared the struggle, for success comes but as the result of arduous experiences.”

— Amelia E. Barr, brainpickings.org

“Among the virtues which he possessed, he was always the most constant in greatest adversity. He endured hunger better than all the rest.”

— Magellan, amazon.com

“You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”

— Margaret Thatcher, margaretthatcher.org

“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands, unmoved and the raging of the sea still around it.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

“Perseverance to remain in the field, and fortitude and spirit to do their duty while in it.”

— George Washington, amazon.com

“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprise, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office one year afterwards in the cities of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to h…”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com