Quotes About Perseverance

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

A word after a word after a word is power.

But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

That's the only way to get where you want to go: one step at a time.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Everything is going to be fine in the end, and if it's not fine, it's not the end.

Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.

Nothing fails like failure.

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.

Joy asks "What if God?" and declares "But if not!

One of the greatest promises to a child of God is that this life is not the end of the story.

Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.