perseverance Quotes

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.