quotations about perseverance
Talent is not enough to survive for this long, dogged perseverance is required to persist 30 years in an industry that is not greasing your wheels with money, influence and exposure.
CHRIS GERARD
"Let the Darkness In: Johnny Indovina Reflects on 30 Years of Human Drama", Pop Matters, April 22, 2016
Talent, intellect, and genius all pale before this one gigantic virtue. 'Twas perseverance that made immortal Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, La Place, Herschel and Hally. Perseverance has searched the endless space above, and the deserts of the earth beneath, has linked together the ends of the world, and explored the mountains and seas, and caverns of the moon; has sounded the depths of the ocean, and travelled millions of miles through space. Perseverance took Bernadotte from the humble cottage in Pau, and placed him on a European throne, and found a seat for a printer's boy alongside of sovereigns and princes. Perseverance made Watt immortal and Stephenson never to be forgotten; has joined the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and bored a hole through the Alps. Perseverance is the one giant power of our minds that will overcome every obstacle, and will land us on the topmost pinnacle of our ambition, will carry us onward over every rocky and thorn-covered road in life, water-tight across each stormy ocean in life's journey, and land us at last safe within the port of heaven.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Perseverance", Short Essays
Patience is very good, but perseverance is much better; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring.
ELIZABETH APPLETON
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end ... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAMWISE GAMGEE
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
People who are weak, vacillating, negative, seldom achieve anything worthwhile. Granting that these temperaments may have been induced by prenatal and post-natal influences, I maintain that there is no habit or undesirable disposition that cannot be overcome by right training, hard enough desire, and a perseverance, which cannot be side-tracked.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Perseverance"
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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