Quotes About Perseverance

Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. "I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling," he reported in 1 Corinthians 2:3, but the verb is came. He did not stay home out of fear for the journey.

Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast blame for failure on subordinates.

The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome, whether in thought, deed, or dress. The emerging leader eats right, stands tall, and prepares himself to wage spiritual warfare

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

There are times that you must do everything you can to do everything you must.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

This the kind of world, if you don't die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

Now, I ain't quite learned bout who makes all the big rules in life, but life sure can be mean and hard sometime.

Just got to go make do with what you got give to you when you born. Look like some people get so much more than others. Even get some money, which this huge world loves. But . . . I have seen sometime, in this world we live in, that most things balance out, equalize out, in the end. Yes, in the end. Cause some people take nothing and make a whole heap out of it. Just like some people take everything, another whole heap, and let it run down to nothing. Human, chile, human.

awake again, and he could

J. Carson Black

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

J. Elizabeth Mills

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.