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Quotes About Perseverance

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
~ William Bradford
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
~ Rosa Parks
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
~ Bill Hybels
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
~ Kathrine Switzer
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Optimism is the true moral courage
~ Ernest Shackleton
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
~ Donald Trump
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
~ Rollo May
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
~ Adrienne Rich
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
~ Pericles
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
~ Marie Antoinette
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~ George S. Patton
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
~ Marcus Garvey
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
~ Bernadette Devlin
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.
~ Audie Murphy
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
~ Gabby Douglas