Quotes About Perseverance

Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

It is a poor sort of fatalism which makes men fold their hands and wait for fortune.

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

Courage is the Christian's coronation. There is no crown without it.

Patience is passion tamed.

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Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

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this. From what people have told me about her, she'd have given you hell!' 'Yes, she would.' He managed

It was her religion to make the best of everything.

The impact of rejection for a novice can be incalculable. It's common for the rejected never to try again, particularly women on their own or housewives or provincials who venture without support.

So I keep bringing these — / Just as Night keeps fetching stars

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.