Quotes About Perseverance

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.' René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951

Life, by its very nature, is reluctant to end. It is as though we are hardwired for hope, to always feel that we have a future.

Pacientët nuk kanë zgjedhje tjetër, veçse të na besojnë. Dhe është detyra jonë të punojmë fort për të merituar atë besim që pacientët na japin dhe duhet të rezistojmë dhe të luftojmë fort

The sand of the desert is sodden red, -- Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!

The year wears away—the last year it is too—and I find myself near graduation, with every prospect of success. And from the beginning to the close my life has been one not of trouble, persecution, or punishment, but one of isolation only.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

You can still function as a living ruin.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

I have found a way to beat myself I win by losing, something like that I'm told that I'm stupid So ok, I'll be stupid If I can't register the pain Then it's not there I'm not so stupid after all I'll show them

Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.

I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life