Quotes About Perseverance

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere…. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.

Oh to break loose like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back, nosing up to the impossible stone and bone-crushing waterfall.... Time to grub up and junk the year's output, a dead wood of dry verse: dim confession, coy revelation, liftings, listless self-imitation, whole days when I could hardly speak, came pluming home unshaven, weak and willing to read anyone things done before and better done....

Brother, try, O Child of Aphrodite, try to die: To die is life.

only by suffering the rat-race in the arena can the heart learn to beat.

Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened— and must be done better.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

a feat which is not unlike tryin' to hold a large beach ball under water while doin' needlepoint

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with the cry, "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here."1 Forty-three thousand troops were ferried across the English

Solid, sound leadership… and ironclad determination to face discouragement, risk, and increasing work without flinching, will always characterize the man who has a sure-enough, bang-up fighting unit.

Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.