Quotes About Perseverance

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Liberty once lost, is lost forever.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it.

He knew he would never let her down, but he also knew that he would not move until the time was right, no matter what pressures were brought to bear.

Jakmile víÅ¡, co chceÅ¡, musíÅ¡ být pÃ…â"¢ipraven obÄ›tovat tomu vÅ¡echno. ÓiÅ¡i JoÅ¡io

It takes time to have a friend, but no matter how long it takes; try and make one.

Every friendship has its own trials

The result of friendship is hard work not by chance.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

There I stood, looking at myself in the mirror, thinking that I had come so far, I had worked so hard, and now the disease was threatening to stamp out all of my progress.

I didn't have a choice. The pain was just there. The clock would keep turning, and eventually it would be morning. I just had to find a way to get through.

Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them all – at least till now.

Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." HEBREWS 12:1

Ronald Reagan said: "We are never defeated, unless we give up on God.

Halfway up the drive there was God these tedious details. Halfway up there was a…

Belief is hard, and the abyss is always there, under one's feet.

Yes, things endure, while the living lapse.

Pacjent - powiedzia?a mi pewnego dnia Anna, ju? blisko ko?ca - to dziwne s?owo. Cierpliwy. A ja wcale nie jestem cierpliwa.

The true workers all die in a fidget of frustration. So much to do, and so much left undone.

Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall [...]

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.