Quotes About Perseverance

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night. They won't be able to see the sunshine the day after tomorrow. Aliren11 must see the sunshine the day after tomorrow." Cofounder

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night.

quotation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.

and then I knew that only the dreams of a stone don't become cracked and only the heart of a stone endures.

Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Everybody can tell you how to do it, but very few have ever done it.... I'm at the point where I don't care. I really don't care. That's the last thing on my mind. I'm doing what I think is right every day. There's a good chance with my background and experience that I know better than most.

Well, you know, I mean, we are usually good at getting multiple hits, and we couldn't string together multiple hits. But you know, we know that it's right around the corner, and our back's against the wall, so we've got to get them tomorrow. We've got to get those hits, and hopefully they don't.

It's all good, man. It's part of the game. I like battle. That's what makes the game fun. You hope that it doesn't turn into physical battle, but at some point in time ...

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Men can bear all things except good days.

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

Our actions and attitudes in the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering are what determine whether God can shift us into the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."4

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Blood, sweat, and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.