Quotes About Perseverance

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Victory shifts from man to man.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Smiling through tears.

Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

I shatter every obstacle.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.

Suferin?a sfin?e?te totul.