204 quotes found
“It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.”
“In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that...”
“Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.”
“You can do what you want to do accomplish what you want to accomplish attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it if you will to do it if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of...”
“To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
“When you stop talking you've lost your customer.”
“To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.”
“Until I die I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.”
“Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.”
“For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some ...”
“Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Educatio...”
“Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!”
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”
“The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.”
“I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”
“If you want your ship to come in you must build a dock.”
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
“Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first the lesson afterwards.”
“As an entrepreneur I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well persevere comes from the Latin roots purse as in "money " and sever as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.”
