Quotes About Perseverance

Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —

In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.

Patience is a virtue. Virtue is a grace. Put them all together and they make a happy face.

Don't give up now. If God has brought you this far, He won't leave you. Will you try? Will you give Him a chance to take the fear away?

Faith that no matter what happens, you won't lose God's love.

Look, He's not promising that it's going to be easy, but He says it's going to be worth it.

You fail because you are human.

Things happen in God's time, not yours.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep an angel from her appointed assignment.

one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think

Introverted people who balance their energy have perseverance and the ability to think independently, focus deeply, and work creatively.

Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

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If you cannot get across it, you must get across it, nevertheless.

Aller Widersinn, mit dem die Welt dich kränkt, tritt dich an, damit du den Sinn in ihm entdeckst, und aller Widerspruch, der in dir selbst dich peinigt, wartet auf deinen Spruch, ihn zu bannen.

Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret.

Even if you cannot achieve much in the way of fitness, every little [bit] helps. The other guy might be getting tired too. If he has five seconds' worth of fight left in him and you have 10, you will win.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

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Martin Dugard