Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- Topic: Adversity, Perseverance, Persistence
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
More Quotes from Yellowstone National Park
More on These Topics
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
No garden is without its weeds.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.
Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
