Quotes About Perseverance

Necessity does the work of courage.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

The coward despairs.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.