When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Perseverance Quotes
If you get up one time more than you fall you will make it through.
Look for a thing until you find it and you’ll not lose your labor.
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won’t have to do it twice.
Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
Man can only form a just estimate of his own actions, by making his power the test of his performance, by comparing what he does with what he can do. Whoever steadily perseveres in the exertion of all his faculties, does what is great with respect to himself; and what will not be despised by […]
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
(Of ‘Polyphilus,’ a dilettante) I have found him, within this last half year, deciphering the Chinese language, making a farce, collecting a vocabulary of the obsolete terms of the English law, writing an inquiry concerning the ancient Corinthian brass, and forming a new scheme of the variations of the needle. (compass) Thus is the powerful […]
