Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

He that has patience may compass anything.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.