perseverance Quotes

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.