Quotes about Perseverance

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.