204 quotes found
“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.”
“Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.”
“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 s...”
“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. Educat...”
“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.”
“Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.”
“Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
“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.”
“By perseverance the snails reached the ark.”
“Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”
“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.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.”
“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.”
