Quotes About Perseverance

You talk about a tide of history. Well, there are some occasions when one man seems to stand his ground and just refuses to accept getting washed away. That's how we arrogant Americans won the New World. And that's how you, Mr Churchill, have saved the Old World. But for you, the whole of Europe would by now be one vast concentration camp. Nobody's ever going to forget that.

I am hurt, but I am not slain; I'll lay me down and bleed a-while, And then I'll rise and fight again!

A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

In the hopelessness of her situation she had found strength, and in her strength there was irresistible pain.

And, in a larger sense, Graham was soon vindicated. Within just a few months, he received invitations to preach in the nations that were then known as Czechoslovakia and East Germany - trips that would turn out to be genuine crusades in countries desperate for Christian ministry. It had not been easy to watch, but Graham had wedged his foot in the door. And he would help kick it wide open over the next few years. p. 275

Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture—and that lesson comes directly from the top. Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won't learn. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of Excellence

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past, on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2

Every day of your life is a fight. If you haven't realised that yet, you have already lost.

In Dante's Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That's the first step in giving meaning to your life.

Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

Fighting against everything, he may have realized, only makes one's life infinitely harder. He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational, yet heartbreaking.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.

Niederhochwald. She seemed determined to work her way through the

?air R. M. Rilke modern ça??n gittikçe daha az çaba talep edece?ini anlam??t?: "?nsanlar her soruna kolay çözüm, hem de kolay?n en kolay?n? ar?yorlar. Ama zor olana tutunmam?z gerekti?i gayet aç?k; her canl? yarat?k zora s?ms?k? tutunur.

You can put a drug addict in the middle of the Sahara Desert and somehow they'll find drugs.

the caster to walk over the glass pieces without damage.

Oliver Wood