Quotes About Perseverance

A hallowed frequency withinThat, even in your darkest hour, You can always turn to.

When I stand strong in youI can look beyond the cloudsWith your wordsThe sun will rise again

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.