Quotes About Perseverance

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Quitting is leading too.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart" Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Difficulties break some men but make others

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Since

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the TRIUMPH over it

It is one thing to be told of possible hardships ahead, it is entirely another to have to confront them in reality.