Quotes About Perseverance

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It's through the hardships you endure that you'll gain real strength.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Only the strong survive.

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.