Quotes about Persistence
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
— Albert Schweitzer
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
— Alexander Graham Bell
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
— Alexander Graham Bell
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
— Michelangelo
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
— Lao Tzu
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
— Dale Carnegie
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
— St. Jerome
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
— Will Smith
Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.
— Judith Durham
One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber