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Quotes About Perseverance

Spring triumphs over Winter (He always lets Her win).
~ Terri Guillemets
After bad weather comes good. After a storm comes a calm.
~ Italian proverb
A firm tree does not fear the storm.
~ Indonesian proverb
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Live so to get the approbation of your Other Self, and success if yours. But pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
He couldn't get a ball to stay on the alley. When he had fired about fifteen balls and hadn't yet reached the cluster of pins, his annoyance began to show out through his clothes. He wouldn't let it show in his face; but after another fifteen balls he was not able to control his face; he didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.
~ Mark Twain
Golf is a four-letter word.
~ Richard Armour, 1962
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
~ Rumi
A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.
~ Chinese proverb
The toughest battle is Mind.
~ Terri Guillemets
If 80 percent of success is showing up, then 20 percent is following up.
~ Phil La Duke, 2016
Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.
~ Roger Seip, 2012
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
~ Francois Rabelais
Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.
~ Daniel, @blindedpoet
No one's going to take our democracy away from us, not now, not ever. America's come too far. America's fought too many battles. America's endured too much to ever let that happen.
~ Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2020
We the people will not be silenced. We the people will not be bullied. We the people will not surrender.
~ Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2020
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
~ C. N. Bovee
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~ Author unknown, 1920s
Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.
~ Dutch proverb
It's only Tuesday and I'm already 95% done with this week.
~ Internet meme
Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables.
~ W. C. Fields, 1934
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.
~ Mark Twain, 1867