Quotes About Perseverance

Good old Cat Poop tapped his pencil against the pad. "You're telling me that you hurt yourself because you want to be a ballerina," he said. "Is that right?

My work with men these past twenty years has convinced me that men are either entering a battle, they are in a battle or they are emerging from one.

Few things that are made quickly endure.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth

Leave me as I am; for the one who enables me to endure the fire will also enable me to remain on the pyre without moving, even without the sense of security that you get from the nails." Polycarp's Prayer

You have to have the vision of what it is you are going to achieve by the hard work, but more importantly, you have to find a way to make the hard work fun … every workout is a small competition within yourself. John "Big Jake" Carenza, 1972 Olympics – Soccer

The story of the Donner Party is a long and complex account of how a group of people from varied backgrounds, stratified in age, wealth, education, and ethnicity, followed their different dreams. Out of necessity, they were made to unite and battle against the unknown—weather, nature, and finally life and death

Once a person gives up, it becomes surprisingly easy to die.

must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

It must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

He just keeps going," Ailes had marveled to a friend after the first debate with Hillary Clinton. "You hit Donald along the head, and he keeps going. He doesn't even know he's been hit.

Look, Kasowitz has known him for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign—what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them. And now he lasts, what, four weeks? He's in the mumble tank. This is New York's toughest lawyer, broken. Mark Corallo, toughest motherfucker I ever met, just can't do it.

He wasn't going to win! Or losing was winning.

Exhausted though he might be, he's got to keep going, show strength, willpower, normalcy—that's his prescription

were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to win.

Even when it seems that we're surrounded by apostates and enemies, even when it seems we're alone and that everyone around us has defected, we must remember God's message to Elijah. Listen for the gentle whisper of the Spirit. Remember that God always reserves a remnant of faithful followers for himself. Therefore, stand strong in your faithfulness to the Lord, so that you will always be counted among God's faithful remnant.

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." —Frederick Douglass

But when you're extra scared or fatigued or discomfortable, some other bad thing is bound to happen. The past two days confirm this theory: a flat tire, a stickup, and a bad fall. The Morton Salt girl had it right. When it rains, it damn well pours.

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.