Quotes About Perseverance

Shamron had always believed careers were defined less by the successes achieved than the calamities survived. "Any fool can take a victory lap," he once famously remarked during a lecture at the Academy, "but only a truly great officer can maintain his composure and his cover when his heart is breaking.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

Patience was not an American virtue.

Any fool can slide down the mountain, but it takes someone of character and discipline walk up one. - Luigi Donati

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

The cruelty of the desert had influenced the faith.

We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can—then believe a little more.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Mine was a crazy dream- but what dream isn't crazy? Can a dream be a dream and be sensible? No. A sensible dream is a plan. Men like us dream, and our dreams come true because we believe in ourselves.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land—nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

I reckon I always had been huntin' for a place to plant my feet and go down swinging.

As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit.

On this day I saw a three-legged buck, with battered antlers and worn fur, drag off through the woods. The proud stag lived on but, crippled up and worn, he would soon feed other beasts.

All the women in me are tired.

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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it,

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. And

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