Quotes About Perseverance

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

A remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, Are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." —Lady Diana Cooper, 1965

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour.

If you are going through hell, keep going

In harsh or melancholy epochs free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen.

Winston S. Churchill

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.

Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.

The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

Would you rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist temptations. All this is paying in advance; that is prospective finance. Observe the other side of the picture; the bad things are paid for afterwards.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."15

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry: Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean.

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