Quotes About Perseverance

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

A batter'd, wreck'd old man,Thrown on this savage shore, far from home,Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,I take my way along the island's edge,Venting a heavy heart.

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

How do you demonstrate a love for God and others in the heat of a contract negotiation in which you perceive the other party to be unreasonable? The Bible gives you no clear-cut answer. God designed the ambiguity in which you are forced to live in order to keep you trusting in Him.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;

The greatest plesure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverance and survival and a lesson for us all.

First, that wherever you live, it is probably Egypt; second, that there is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land; and third, that "the way to the land is through the wilderness." There is no way to get from here to there except by joining together and marching.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.