Quotes About Perseverance

You already have everything you need to be a longdistance athlete. You see, once you decide to run or walk farther than the 10-K (6.2 miles), your quest centers much more on tenacity than talent.

I've spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it's out beyond the harbour on the high seas, but it's very nice to look at.

I've always considered myself to be the sturdy type. You know, the sort who can put up with any unpleasant situation if I have to.

the ground for I know not how long. Of course

We all fall in the shit many times during our lives. The trick is pulling ourselves out again.

I've known violence, I've known bigotry. I've known shame and I've known love. And somehow, I always survive.

I'd rather bore a hole to the center of the earth with my tongue.

Al mal tiempo, buena cara.»

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castaneda Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan

We must all be fighters and strugglers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out. It is bad to let choice things become easily familiar; for, you know, familiarity is apt to beget a proverbial offspring. The

Some also have wished that the next way to their Father's house were here, that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over, but the Way is the Way, and there is an end.

I see now that the wind must have veered to the south-east, and that my plan was leading me into the fastnesses of the hills; but I would have wandered for weeks sooner than disobey the word of the girl who sang in the rain.

A man's courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don't, he will funk worse next time. I hadn't enough courage to be able to take chances with it, though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most was being afraid.

My first rule, everyday, was to find enough food to make it to the next day. Then I could afford the luxury of worrying about the enemy.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them. 4.

I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.

And as he went, he sang, saying-- Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill'd thee, thou art yet alive!

The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive

The hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend, For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart, let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

is the heavenly glory of so little worth with him, that he counteth it not worth running the risk of a few difficulties to obtain it?