Quotes About Perseverance

I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

It will become stronger and more protective with use until one day I will cast it aside and walk unencumbered among all manners of men and, when I do, my name will be raised high on the pyramid of life.

The Scroll Marked X

infirmities

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.

insurmountable

know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win.

Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.

Joy leaks out when there are enough cracks.

Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, By dang, I can do it! then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

There ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Jesus said take up your cross and follow Me, but He didn't ast us to go out and nail ourselves to a board.

Throw a puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day...

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.