Quotes About Perseverance

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?