Quotes About Perseverance

to square all these circles?

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

No garden is without its weeds

Despair gives courage to a coward.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Care and diligence bring luck.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Let No Limitation be your Limitation.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

God does not always move us when we desire to be moved, and everything that moves us deeply is not God.

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

a horribly protracted death that would stretch into the indefinite future, a death not in one month or two or even three but one that might go on and on, with the whole process of dying getting worse every single day for years and years and years.

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Only a man harrowing clodsIn a slow silent walkWith an old horse that stumbles and nodsHalf asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flameFrom the heaps of couch grass:Yet this will go onward the sameThough dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wightCome whispering by;War's annals will cloud into nightEre their story die.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.