How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
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...
Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills...
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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.
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought...
Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.
Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
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