Quotes About Perseverance

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do.

Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes; They will say, Women don't have what it takes.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

It's been a journey. For women of color, for my family. It's one dream coming true after another.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I chased a girl for two years only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: We were both crazy about girls.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If life didn't have hurdles, there wouldn't be anything for us to do and existence wouldn't be worth it.

You have a special place in the world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, on the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who would crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

It does not only take memories to endure but it also takes the moments you long for

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.