Quotes About Perseverance

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

I've been hurt but I'll continue to love, for that gives me courage to go on with my life.

Where there's life, there's hope.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

You will always have 1,000 reasons to quit on life.

My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.