Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This...
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the...
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide wi...
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.