Quotes about Perseverance

Effort is a measure of a Man.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.