Quotes About Perseverance

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle in

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

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If you try to quit I will eat you!

Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.

You can't fall if you're already on the floor when you faint. Words to live by.

Stupid body. Stupider brain for not posting a sign that said DREAM THREAT—PLEASE IGNORE.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

After some time I fell into a lingering sickness like a consumption, together with lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and do me good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongueWho says my hand a needle better fits,A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong,For such despite they cast on female wits:If what I do prove well, it won't advance,They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

How oft with disappointment have I met, When I on fading things my hopes have set?

On all her breezes borne Earth yields no scents like those; But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Because the road is rough and long, Shall we despise the skylark's song?

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

The red world And corresponding red breezes Went on Geryon did not