Quotes About Perseverance

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. [ Speech at CIA Headquarters , November 28, 1961]

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

we will do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard ...

And finally, at age seventy, having distinguished himself as a brilliant Secretary of State, an independent President and an eloquent member of Congress, he was to record somberly that his "whole life has been a succession of disappointments. I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success in anything that I ever undertook." Yet

O God, Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small

If we fail, then freedom fails.

know that this is a very long way, therefore patience is necessary in this

give attendance to the accomplishment only and let other things pass.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.

But though one may keep the wolves from one's door, they still howl out there in the darkness.

3. Alegerea Cruta-l pana moare. Chinuie-l pana traieste.

There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.

I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo

FALDER. It's easy enough to put a face on it, sir, when you're independent. Try it when you're down like me. They talk about giving you your deserts. Well, I think I've had just a bit over.

MACHEATH Is there any power, any force that could tear me from thee? You might sooner tear a pension out of the hands of a courtier, a fee from a lawyer, a pretty woman from a looking glass, or any woman from quadrille.—But to tear me from thee is impossible! AIR XVI—Over the Hills and Far Away Were I laid on Greenland's coast, And in my arms embrac'd my lass; Warm amidst eternal frost, Too soon the half-year's night would pass.

I understand that not everyone is so lucky; a precious few have it easier, but most have it harder. I might once have said that you make that kind of luck for yourself, and in some ways you do, but it's just as often true that people end up where they are through no fault of their own and are then faced with making the best of it.

I noticed that at some point the strategy of hiking farther and the reality of getting older began to diverge in inconvenient ways. It sneaks up on you, but eventually a mile at altitude begins to feel like a mile and a half, then two miles, and so on.