Quotes About Perseverance

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

Churchill had said, "When you're going through hell, keep going,

Schopenhauer quote so insightful. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

cling to these cherished beliefs with superhuman tenacity. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

Extraordinary breakthroughs require extraordinary perseverance.

self-esteem through effort.

but with a man whose entire body was paralyzed. Well, all except for his penis, which enabled them to have three children, although the thought picture of how this was accomplished wasn't something on which she liked to dwell.

Die? That is the last thing I shall do!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There are two kinds of courage: the courage that holds things together and the courage that throws them away. The first is more common; it is the cement of civilization; it is Lucy's. The second is the courage of drunks and suicides and mystics.

Keep in mind that getting control of any addictive-type problem nearly always requires multiple efforts. If at first you don't fully succeed, keep trying and keep learning; remember, most cigarette smokers finally quit on the eighth serious attempt.

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Douglas Johnson

Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It's the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.

Pero sea lo que sea, y aunque tomes la peor decisión imaginable, todo ello obedecerá básicamente a una sola razón: la esperanza. Que es un lujo al que todos tratamos de aferrarnos desesperadamente.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Last, but by no means least, courage -- moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle -- the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Last, but by no means least, courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle_ the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.