Quotes About Perseverance

As they approached Dhauli the elephant refused to go forward; nothing that Mark or the mahout did could persuade her to cross the open ground in front of them. Only then did Mark learn that they had come to the Kalinga battlefield, on which hundreds of war elephants are said to have died.

If problems fashion the center of our daily existence, we are being formed by these problems. If

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Every day became an epic of endurance.

Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.

Because of their sacrifice, you must escape. If you don't, everything up until now will have been in vain." "But

Better to just hold on and try not to flinch.

The winters came early, the rains not often enough, the locusts rose in biblical scale, the land broke hard to the plow, the price for the crops hardly ever enough, the isolation beyond imagination, the long nights forever, and summer sun exploding in their faces and searing their dreams with flames.

I asked him about work, and he sent me to a guy and the guy asked me if I thought I could handle loading hindquarters. Three days a week I was going to the gym and hitting the heavy bag, the speed bag, lifting weights, and playing handball. Plus I was teaching dancing, so I picked up a hindquarter like it was a pork chop, and I got the job. The

Russell had lost the thumb and index finger on his left hand when he was young. He moved the thumb he still had around like he was grinding something into the white tablecloth and said, "Dust to dust." I

I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.

All unaware, and in a manner which I had no power to explain, I was pushed from my immoveable and lofty station, and cast upon a sea of troubles.

They refuse to credit my tale; they impute my act to the influence of daemons; they account me an example of the doom me to death and infamy. Have I power to escape this evil? If I have, be sure I will exert it. I will not accept evil at their hand, when I am entitled to good; I will suffer only when I cannot elude suffering.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.