I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.
You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit.
I didn't hear no bell.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
It's not easy being drunk all the time. If it were easy, everyone would do it.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Every innovation has to go through three stages. First people laugh at it. Then they fight it. Then they accept it.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor.
Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, and then this river of Giverny which dries up and fills again.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.
