David Smith > David's Quotes

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
― Andy Warhol

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
― Pele

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.... Unless you have a lot
of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about; otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.”
― Steve Jobs

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill