Quotes About Perseverance

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

Saw a sunken army who had spent fourteen years waging war on alcohol only to see alcohol win, and win big.

It might look discouraging , but at every relapse, you learn something new.

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Ich sag euch, ich hab schon so viel Malheur g'habt, und allzeit durch meine Räusch. Wann ich mir meinen Verdruß nit versaufet, ich müßt mich grad aus Verzweiflung dem Trunk ergeben.

Zum Erwerben eines Glücks gehört Fleiß und Geduld, und zur Erhaltung desselben gehört Mäßigung und Vorsicht. Langsam und Schritt für Schritt steigt man eine Treppe hinauf. Aber in einem Augenblick fällt man hinab, und bringt Wunden und Schmerzen genug mit auf die Erde.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.

Without haste, but without rest.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Who strives always to the utmost,For him there is salvation.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.