Quotes About Perseverance

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.

Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

You can't hit a home run every time.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it, and he's right.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Prayer lights our souls through dark times.

Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.