Robert Henri Quotes

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.