Quotes about Perseverance
I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.
— Miguel Cabrera
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
— Norman Vincent Peale
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
— Samuel Johnson
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.
— Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
— Toni Morrison
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
— Victor Hugo
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
— Steven Spielberg
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".
— Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.
— DL Moody