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a Hero for a Better World ... Every Act of Kindness Makes
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Perseverance
My motto
was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or
feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only
thing to do was keep swinging
-- Hank Aaron
*
"Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience
and perseverance."
-- Abigail
Adams
*
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one has given
up too soon, and left one unexpended effort which might
have saved the world."
-- Jane
Addams
“Patience
and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish.”
-- John Quincy Adams
If you
wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother
and hope your guardian genius.
-- Joseph Addison
Follow
your dreams of a better world, and keep on trying,
even when there seems to be little hope, because it
is the right thing to do. We may never know how the
seeds of kindness that we plant may help others on
their journey, today, or even sometime far in the
future. But Every act of compassion makes a difference!
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
At
times the road of life can seem dark, cold, and lonely.
One day it seems, nothing in the world can stop you
from accomplishing your dreams. Then, unexpectedly
a situation arises out of nowhere and the doubt, fear,
and anxiety creep in. Perseverance Quotes give us
the insight and strength to do what's necessary to
accomplish your most treasured and sought after dreams
and goals. They provide you that little extra boost
you need to keep on keeping on even when the world
says it can't be done. --
Robert
Alan Silverstein
When
you find yourself swimming against the tide, you'll
discover the inner strength to persevere, if you're
working for your higher purpose.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
*
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and
gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
-- Amos
Bronson Alcott
“People
of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because
they are determined to.”
-- George Allen
*
Keep on keeping on.
--
Edgar
Allen (Founder of Easter Seals)
“Perseverance
is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
-- Julie Andrews
*
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed
is possible only in one way.
-- Aristotle
*
"Man
is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning
if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
--
Aristotle
“To
believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals
in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself
with the things and the people that make you happy - this
is success!”
-- Sasha Azevedo
"The
man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful
is the man who will win."
-- Roger Bannister
*
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one often comes from a strong will, and the other
from a strong won't.”
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
“When
one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has
opened for us.”
-- Alexander Graham Bell
"If
opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
-- Milton Berle (1908-2002), (Milton Berlinger) U.S. comedian
and actor
*
"The power of a movement lies in the fact that
it can indeed change the habits of people. This change
is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral
persuasion. "
-- Stephen
Biko
Consider
the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability
to stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Josh Billings
Great
changes may not happen right away, but with effort even
the difficult may become easy.
-- Bill Blackman
*
When the story of these times gets written, we want
it to say that we did all we could, and it was more
than anyone could have imagined.
--
Bono
"Follow
your dream...take one step at a time and don't settle for
less, just continue to climb. Follow your dream...if you
stumble, don't stop and lose sight of your goal, press on
to the top...For only on top can we see the whole view,
can we see what we've done and what we can do, can we then
have the vision to seek something new...Press on, and follow
your dream."
-- Amanda Bradley
*
"Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can
Win"
-- Erin
Brockovich
Studies
indicate that the one quality all successful people have
is persistence."
-- Joyce Brothers (1928-) U.S. psychologist and talk show
host "
Destiny
is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to
wish for but to attain.
-- William Jennings Bryan
One
man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days,
but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success
of his life
-- Edward B. Butler
I hold
a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the
little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and
extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
-- Sir T. F. Buxton
With
ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things
are attainable.
-- Thomas Foxwell Buxton
*
“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled
success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before
you. Achieve! Achieve!”
~ Andrew
Carnegie
“People
who are unable to motivate themselves must be content
with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other
talents.”
~ Andrew
Carnegie
“Whatever
I engage in, I must push inordinately.”
~ Andrew
Carnegie
Concentrate
your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise
man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
~ Andrew
Carnegie
Concentration
is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
~ Andrew
Carnegie
“Permanence,
perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles,
discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in
all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak”
Thomas Carlyle
"Endurance
is patience concentrated."
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
“Most
of the important things in the world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be
no hope at all.”
-- Dale Carnegie
A man
of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles
his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly
prevails at last.
-- Lord Chesterfield
Never,
never, never, never give up.
-- Winston Churchill
Never
give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing,
great or small, large or petty, never give in except to
convictions of honor and good sense.
-- Winston Churchill
*"Rome
was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle you see
It's the sweeter the victory"
-- Jimmy
Cliff
All
of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists
through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the
man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready
to receive it.
-- Robert Collier
It does
not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-- Confucius
Our
greatest joy is not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall."
-- Confucius (551-479 BC), (K'ung Fu-tse) Chinese philosopher
"
“Nothing
in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people
with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race”
-- Calvin Coolidge
The
way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams. One is a dream
that's always going to be just that..... A dream. A vision
that you can never really hold in your hand. Then there's
a dream that's more than a dream its like.... A map. A map
that you live by and follow for the rest of your days Knowing
that someday your going to stand on top of that Mountain
holding everything you thought of Right There In Your Hand!
-- Robert Cooper
" Dream
your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind.
Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe.
Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind."
-- Debbie Coulter
The
main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
-- Steven Covey
Decide
carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like
mad to make sure you get it!
-- Hector Crawford
“Life
is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must
believe that we are gifted for something, and that this
thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
-- Marie Curie
Defeat
never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels
Have
patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with
yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections,
but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin
the task anew.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
The
person who makes a success of living is the one who sees
his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is
dedication.
-- Cecil B. De Mille
Be ambitious!
You will never achieve anything greater than you set your
sights upon. Great endeavors do not just happen, they are
undertaken by average people who gain a vision of how to
make the impossible possible.”
-- John Di Frances
Don't
let adversity become an obstacle. Let adversity spur you
on to devise creative approaches and solutions.
-- John Di Frances
To succeed...
you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate
you, something to inspire you.
--Tony Dorsett
Our
greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Nearly
every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point
where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's
not the place to become discouraged.
-- Thomas A. Edison
“I am
not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is
another step forward.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
"Genius
is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas Edison (1847-1931) U.S. inventor
*
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with
problems longer.
-- Albert
Einstein
“Perseverance
is not a long race; it is many short races one after the
other”
-- Walter Elliot
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the
power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth
step in a continuous line.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
*
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in
rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Progress
is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"
I found that if I could find the energy then I could find
the determination to keep on going. I learned that your
mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself,
I can do it, I can do it, and I can do it."
-- Jon Erickson
Don't
let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had
to begin where he was."
-- Richard L. Evans
Success
seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others
have let go.
-- William Feather
Vitality
shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability
to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who
would do some great thing in this short life, must apply
himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces
as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves,
looks like insanity.
-- John Foster
Industry,
perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
-- Benjamin
Franklin
“I
always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step
over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep
going, someone will always, always give you a hand.
Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep
your feet moving.”
-- Morgan
Freeman
*
“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
-- Morgan
Freeman
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from
a mistake.
-- Robert Fripp
"First
they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
“Stay
the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you
are.”
-- Richard Le Gallienne
“Success
consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
*
If you really want something, and really work hard,
and take advantage of opportunities, and never give
up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.
~ Jane
Goodall
"The
way to succeed is never quit. That’s it. But really be humble
about it."
-- Alex Haley
There's
only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
-- Brian Hays
There
may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall
take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and
guide myself straight.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Failure
leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Success
is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth,
in conquering our objectives.
--Robert M. Hensel
"If
at first you don't succeed, try, try, again."
-- William Edward Hickson
“Edison
failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light.
Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
-- Napoleon Hill
" Patience,
persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination
for success."
-- Napoleon Hill
The
majority of men meet with failure because of their lack
of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of
those which fail.
-- Napoleon Hill
Success
seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
-- Conrad Hilton
“I
am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the
number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed
is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and
keep trying.”
-- Tom Hopkins
"Persistence
prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders
and then collects force enough to overflow onward.”
-- Vernon Howard
“A
little more persistence, a little more effort, and what
seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
--Elbert Hubbard
Press
on! A better fate awaits thee.
-- Victor Hugo
Patience
and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their
weight of cleverness.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
Boys,
there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go
spending your whole life commiserating that you got the
raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working
at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called
perseverance.
-- Lee Iacocca
It is
interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create
themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working
their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
-- Washington Irving
*When I began my humanitarian work, I understood
that in order to gain credibility I needed patience,
commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to
ignore the skeptics.
-- Bianca
Jagger
Most
people never run far enough on their first wind to find
out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got
and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James
"When
you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and
hang on."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
*
To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and
soothing language.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Acknowledge
that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to
your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
-- Michael Johnson
“Great
works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”
-- Samuel Johnson
"I can
accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't
accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan
"Obstacles
don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn
around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through
it or work around it."
-- Michael Jordan
"Don't
follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because,
you are the future of tomorrow."
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
" Don't
be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up
failure, Learn from your failures and go on to the next
challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're
not growing."
-- H. Stanley Judd
“Try
and fail, but don't fail to try.”
-- Stephen Kaggwa
*
"We can do anything we want as long as we stick
to it long enough."
-- Helen
Keller
*Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
--
Helen
Keller
Although
the world is very full of suffering, it is also full
of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen
Keller
Champions
keep playing until they get it right.
-- Billie Jean King
*
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that
keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that
quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And
so today I still have a dream. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
“We
must accept finite disappointment, but we must never
lose infinite hope.” --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
Opportunities
are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't
recognize them.
-- Ann Landers
“Do
not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic.
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month,
or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever
be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary
trouble.” -- John R. Lewis
“For
all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works
with perseverance.”
-- Lao Tzu
“The
flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days”
-- Robert Leighton
“My
great concern is not whether you have failed, but
whether you are content with your failure.”
-- Abraham
Lincoln
*
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
I
will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any one thing.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
“Perseverance
is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough
and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Age
wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
-- Douglas MacArthur
*
“It always seems impossible until its done.”
--
Nelson
Mandela
There
is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives
confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes
in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes
a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish
whatever he sets out to do.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"We
conquer by continuing."
-- George Matheson
"A difficult
time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction
that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue,
a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell
"He
who labors diligently need never despair; for all things
are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
-- Menander
Plan
your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month.
Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings
of your power.
-- Paul J. Meyer
English
author and humorist "Rivers know this: there is no hurry.
We shall get there some day."
-- A.A. Milne (1882-1956), (Alan Alexander Milne)
The
heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained
by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
-- Thomas S. Monson
Big
shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley
"When
hit hard by events, don't say, 'Why me?' The answer
is to the why me question is 'Why not me? Am I so
special that bad things shouldn't happen to me?' Ask
instead, 'What do I do next?'"
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"When
hit hard by events, don't say, 'Why me?' The answer
is to the why me question is 'Why not me? Am I so
special that bad things shouldn't happen to me?' Ask
instead, 'What do I do next?'"
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
Don't
let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best
possible use.
-- Earl Nightingale
Spring
passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes
and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one
remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers
one's perseverance.
-- Yoko Ono
To have
striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain
ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
-- Sir William Osler
*“The
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it
is dearness only that gives everything its value."
-- Thomas
Paine.
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness
only that gives everything its value. I love the man that
can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress
and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little
minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
-- Thomas
Paine.
" I've
always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely
against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't
have a chance to win."
-- Arnold Palmer
Let
me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength
lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur
“There
is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome.
This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It
can change the world. You can survive all the great storms
in your life.”
-Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
" Believe
in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble
but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot
be successful or happy. Formulate and stamp indelibly on
your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold
this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your
mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build obstacles
in your imagination. Do not be awestruck by other people
and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as
you can."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
*You
have to dream, you have to have a vision and you have
to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you
a little at times because sometimes that seems far
beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop
a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments
that are sure to come your way. Tough times don’t
last, tough people do...
-- Gregory
Peck
He conquers
who endures.
-- Persius
*
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
-- Pablo
Picasso
If you
have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another
chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling
down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
Your
biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the
right place at the right time can only happen when you keep
moving toward the next opportunity.
-- Arthur Pine
Never
discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter
how slow.
-- Plato
“Perseverance
is more prevailing than violence; and many things which
cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves
up when taken little by little.”
-- Plutarch
*
"I
think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength
to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
"
-- Christopher
Reeve
*
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then
they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the
will, they soon become inevitable.
-- Christopher
Reeve
"What
I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the
ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on,
to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have
to be a ‘Superman’ to do it."
-- Christopher
Reeve
“I do
not think there is any other quality so essential to success
of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes
almost everything, even nature.”
-- John D. Rockefeller
When
you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang
on.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
*It
is common sense to take a method and try it. If it
fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above
all, try something.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
*"
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind
that comes to the person who has the power to do what
no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But
the average person who wins what we call success is
not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has
merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their
fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities
to a more than ordinary degree."
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
Stick
around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep
at it.
-- Mark
Ruffalo
Both
now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief
in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
-- Andrei
Sakharov
When
I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things
I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
*
People are always blaming their circumstances for
what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The
people who get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
“Pay
no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever
been erected to a critic.”
-- Jean Sibelius
You
may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.
-- Beverly Sills
Saints
are sinners who kept on going.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
*"When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a
minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the
place and time that the tide will turn."
-- Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Those
who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a
chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or
peasant.
-- Bayard Taylor
At every
crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your
heart lead the way.
-- Leland Thomas
I
have learned, that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
*All
endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The
fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic
we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
What
people say you cannot do, you try and find that you
can.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
Success
usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
*
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
-- Leo
Tolstoy
Never
consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist,
you will be successful.
-- Brian Tracy
*
"If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared,
keep going; if you are hungry; keep going; if you
want to taste freedom, keep going."
-- Harriet
Tubman
“Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
-- Mark
Twain
*The
miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to
be found in their industry, application, and perseverance
under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
-- Mark
Twain
*
“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim
nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can
have.” -- Woodrow
Wilson
*"I
know the price of success: dedication, hard work
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want
to see happen."
-- Frank
Lloyd Wright
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