Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.
It’s not over until you win.
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.
If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
Entrepreneurs don’t finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.
There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is these qualities that distinguish the strong soul from the weak.