Quotes About Perseverance

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

I am constant to my purposes...

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Beautiful rainbows and life water come from a dark rain cloud — What gifts can you bring the world even in your times of darkness?

Sometimes a relationship can hobble along for years with an injured leg of friendship or a broken wing of love.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Be thankful for the little things, that always come your way, For little things to wondrous size, perchance may grow some day. Don't cast aside red roses, just because of one sharp thorn, Remember it's the darkest night, that brings the brightest dawn.

He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.

From the thorn bush comes the rose.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

A scar is a prayer of gratitude for that which remains.

Scar — fossil in flesh, a hard-earned relic from your life

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.

The road to self-belief is potholed.

Be a stone spiral staircase in a world full of escalators.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.