Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
I have often been adrift but I have always stayed afloat.
Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk of...
Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the mu...
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It d...
And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Patient endurance attends to all things.
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamon...
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.