Confucius Quotes

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.