Showing posts with label perseverance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perseverance. Show all posts

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Post #3217

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when you rise to battle again.
—Anonymous

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Post #2188

By persevering, mountains will often become only mole hills.
—Unknown

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Post #2039

Hard pounding this, Gentlemen; let us see who will pound the longest.
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Friday, April 10, 2015

Post #1790

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders—these are the masters of victory.
—Edmund Burke

Monday, December 08, 2014

Post #1701 Perseverance (grit)

Though my resources they be scant
The word I most reject is "can't"
And with the whole of my spirit
Determined! I refuse to quit

Ever aware that I may fail
On my steam and grit yet I sail

—holden klass

NOTE 
This is an example of  a sestain AABBCC. A sestain is a six line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format (musaddas), comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four line poem or a unit of a poem. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes, for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. I try to stick with the 8 syllables per line out of discipline. But I've seen a lot of  sestains with more or less than 8 syllables. I don't think it matters.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Post #1651

The power of man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Post #1524

Do not expect the ship to return loaded with precious treasures, without being exposed to the stormy deep.
—Pietro Metastasio

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Post #1205

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
—Louis Pasteur

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Post #1184

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Post #1085


In confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
—H. Jackson Brown

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Post #1073

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Paul Meyer

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Post #1072

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.
John D. Rockefeller

Monday, June 25, 2012

Post #987

Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
—Ambrose Bierce

Friday, May 25, 2012

Post #961

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
—Walter Elliott

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Post #907

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
—Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Post #902 - the man in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Post #817

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
—Napoleon Hill

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Post #808

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.
—David Berry

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Post #758

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
—Louis L'Amour

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Post #750

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
—Abraham Lincoln

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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