Quotes About Perseverance

All—Easterners and Westerners, Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cowboys and college graduates, wherever they came from, and whatever their social position—possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for adventure. They were to a man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word.

We rested a couple of hours at noon for lunch, and the afternoon's sport was simply a repetition of the morning's, except that we had but one dog to work with; for shortly after mid-day the stub-tail pointer, for his sins, encountered a skunk, with which he waged prompt and valiant battle—thereby rendering himself, for the balance of the time, wholly useless as a servant and highly offensive as a companion.

It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

It's true, I suffer a great deal-- but do I suffer well ? That is the question.

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

True, they are not at rest yet,but now that they are indeedapart, winnowed from failures,they withdraw to an orbitand turn with disinterestedhard energy, like the stars.

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

Our wives and the Holy Spirit have a lot in common. It is not enough for our wives to move into a home. That is only the beginning. Redecorating is a must. And this is not a one-time redecorating. It keeps going and going. The same is true with the Holy Spirit. Continual work is inevitable. It is never done. It is a lifelong process.

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. —Abraham Lincoln

Los lideres de la iglesia deben tener la determinacion del ap6stol Pablo, que dijo: ,Una coca hago> (Fil. 3:13).