Quotes About Perseverance

It's clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The weaklings were winnowed out by these great storms, and the chastened souls of those who survived knew little of pleasure.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

Nunca he entendido cómo llegaste tan lejos. ?Drogas. Drogado de pies a cabeza.

He was like a fine olive tree, which when its roots are checked one way will put them out another. Summer or winter, storm or calm, his soul sought justice and the end of wrong.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

THE BONUS CHARACTERISTICS are not common to all spirited kids, but if your child possesses any of them, you will need to be even more enterprising. Not only are you living with a child who is more, but you're also faced with the exhaustion of life with a child who is energetic, rarely falls into a predictable sleeping and eating schedule, expresses a strong resistance to new situations and things, and shares fewer rewarding smiles. Don't despair. These too have their potential.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't. —Howard Ward Beecher

Press on, regardless.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them

My dear sister, go on steadily and quietly; if our dear Lord means you to run, He will "strengthen your heart." ST. FRANCIS DE SALES.

they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.—ISA. xl. 30, 31.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.