Quotes About Perseverance

Epictetus tells us that "it is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you're struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent." And why would God do such a thing?

Epictetus tells us that "it is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you're struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent." And why would God do such a thing? "So that you may become an Olympic victor; and that is something that can't be achieved without sweat.

In the Meditations, he offers advice on what to do at such junctures: Continue to practice Stoicism, "even when success looks hopeless.

Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

her predicament. In his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

Many, on hearing Ebert's story, would use the word unlucky to describe him, but a much more fitting word would be unvanquished. During the last decade of his life, he experienced enough setbacks for several lifetimes and yet was not embittered by his fate. It was a triumph of the human spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

Marcus: "Yes, they say that life is more like wrestling than like dancing.

What ailment of yours have you cured today? What failing have you resisted? Where can you show improvement?"1

the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."46

While praying, always duck and cover. The authentic spiritual pilgrimage may require that you walk all the way up a holy mountain, only to haul your ass right back down and still not have a clue where you were, are, or will be.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

If you want something bad enough, you find a way to make it happen. - Seamus McKay

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.

Turn away no more.Why wilt thou turn away?The starry floor,The wat'ry shoreIs giv'n thee till the break of day.

If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now and thereafter he was behaving out of a book. The first maxim of Alexanderism is never to stop; Charles continued.

But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

They knew they were pilgrims.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

twice. "On the ninth day the

So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.