#severance

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#perseverance #sophie-kinsella #life

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #essential #even #everything #i

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#perseverance #reached #snail

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end. ↗

— Tracy McMillan

#love

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. ↗

— Laurence Stern

#bad one #cause #good #good cause #known

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dreams

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#fate #perseverance #taoism #wrestling #harmony

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#perseverance #nothing

It always seems impossible until it's done. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#perseverance