Perseverance Is Failing Quotes & Sayings

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln

I can't but I CAN — Kcat Yarza

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling. — Junot Diaz

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. — Julie Andrews Edwards

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. — Walt Whitman

The question is not how can I overcome fear? The question is: how can I use it creatively? If you have problems (and we all do), how are you going to deal with them? To be is to be imperfect. Contentment is resiliency, the willingness and the ability to see the opportunities presented by mistakes. Take what you like and pay for it - failure is the price you pay for success. It is the wages of growth. Success is failing forwards, figuring out how to conduct suffering, and in its reconstruction to transform it into illumination. Eschew impatience. Let stillness teach you where your centre is, where your origins are. Be impeccable in all your dealings with the world. Integrity isn't a luxury - it's an essential. Remember the best advice of the I Ching: perseverance furthers. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure. — Malcolm X

Try again. Fail again. Try better. — Samuel Beckett

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck. — Karen Karbo

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous ... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways. — Debbie Ford

It is snowing again. Confound it, will the winter never be over? I crave to have the solid ground under my feet. You cannot understand that craving if you have never lived in a country where every step was unstable. It is very tiresome and tiring to walk and have the ground give way under you at every step. — John Steinbeck

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes. — Jo Brand

I don't believe in failure. I'm perseverant - I believe in failing. — Bauvard