classroom quotes

Quotations That Focus On Perseverance

• Weak men are the slaves of what happens. Strong men are masters of what happens. Weak men are victims of their environment. Strong men are victors in any environment. Strong men may not change the circumstances, but they will use them, compel them to serve, and bend them to their purposes. They may not be able to change the direction of the wind, but some how they will coerce the wind to fill their sails while they drive the tiller over to keep their course. -George Craig Stewart.

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. -Daniel H. Burnhom

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -Thomas Henry Huxley

• The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. -Air Force motto

• To reach the port of heaven we must sail; sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it- but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There is no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker

• We are never in the land of the done. -Dr. Dooley's letter to a young doctor.

• Mediocrity does not inspire men to greatness. -Zarlenga

• Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future. -Thomas Dreier

• Excellence is a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

• What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind and body can achieve; and those who stay will be champions.

• Think like a person of action, act like a person of thought.

• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a mater of choice. -William Jennings Bryan

• Courage is the resistance of fear, master of fear - not the absence of fear. -Mark Twain

• Fortune favors the bold. -Virgil

• The man who removes mountains begins by carrying away small stones. -Chinese Proverb

• Learning is never an easy enterprise; nor is truth an easy master. -The Great Books

• Some people see things and say, "Why?", I see things and ask, "Why not?" -Robert F. Kennedy

• You will find out what you can do by doing it. -Zarlenga

• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. -Tao Te Ching

• There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt

• A child reared to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down. -African Proverb

• It's not where you start, it's where you end up. You haven't failed until you've stopped trying.

• Consider the postage stamp: It secures success by sticking to one thing until it gets there.

• A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things. -Chinese Proverb

• Nothing can be done except little by little. -Charles Baudelaire

• There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt