perseverance Quotes

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.