Quotes About Perseverance

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth

of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that's what life was, a long series of things that didn't go down the way you thought they would. Hell with it. Either they'd figure it out or they wouldn't. Most people never did.

Find beauty, try to understand, survive.

He drove. That was what he did. What he'd always do.

Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find. Nedra: I haven't been looking for it. Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.

There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness...

The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort.

Gevoel van moed. Groot verlangen verder te leven.

The courage to live when the best days were past.

Luck is where hard work meets opportunity.

Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.

You must want it enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. – Phyllis Whitney

Are you a real writer? Then keep writing. And don't stop. Ever.

Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

He was preaching about expectations, that new Christians sometimes had the expectation that life with Christ was going to be smooth and happy and without obstacle from now on. That there would be no major problems, no confrontation with evil, no valley of the shadow ever again. Not so, he said, not so. There would be tribulation in the world. That was certain. But the other certainty was that Jesus has overcome the world.

Winston Churchill: "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

The great dividend is not necessarily outscoring an opponent. The guaranteed dividend is the complete peace of mind gained in knowing you did everything within your power, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to bring forth your full potential. – John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach

The main thing is to break the shackles of laziness and begin our labors; then, after that, to forget that we are laboring in the sheer joy of creation with which our labor inspires us.