(244 quotes found)
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.”
Mark Twain
“The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.”
Marie Osmond
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
Orison Swett Marden
“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
Robert Frost
“Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language”
Thomas Jefferson
“Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.”
Ellen Ochoa
“O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance”
Hipponax the Satirist
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