Quotes About Perseverance

If you build it, he will come.

we may patiently pass through this life in afflictions, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other disagreeable circumstances, contented with this single assurance, that our King will never desert us, but will give what we need, until having finished our warfare, we shall be called to the triumph.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked… it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers.

it's a long lane that has no turning.

A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Thread softly because you tread on my dreams.

What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass.

Now days are dragon-ridden.

Barach. There, he is down! He is up again! He is going out into the deep water.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

A line will take us hours may be; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been nought.

It will soon be found that the principal value of the training lies not so much in the actual physical holds or breaks, but in the psychological reaction which engenders and fosters the necessary attitude of mind which refuses to admit defeat and is determined to achieve victory.

Whoever suffers from the malady of being unable to endure any injustice, must never look out of the window, but stay in his room with the door shut. He would also do well, perhaps, to throw away his mirror.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.

Let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

Stagger onward rejoicing; And even then if, perhaps Having actually got To the last col, you collapse With all Atlantis shining Below you yet you cannot Descend, you should still be proud Even to have been allowed Just to peep at Atlantis In a poetic vision: Give thanks and lie down in peace, Having seen your salvation.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies.

The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.