Quotes About Persistence

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Great dreams require great courage.

Everyones got dreams, find the courage to follow your own.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

Courage is a function of process.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.