Saturday, July 17, 2010

ON PERSEVERANCE

Quote Of The Moment:



"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." 

ON PERSEVERANCE

 "Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
 Plutarch

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Henry Ward Beecher

"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."
 Arnold Bennett 

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
 "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
Albert Camus

"What you resist persists."
 Carl Jung

"Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly."
 Edward Albee

"A goal unachieved is merely a problem unsolved."
Anonymous

“A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"Never, never, never give up."
Sir Winston Churchill

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