Quotes About Perseverance

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

Take my hands," Alec said. "And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!

In life, you should seek the help you need. Do not depend on your own strength alone. You have never done all you can to finish a task until you have sought help from the Lord.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.