Quotes About Perseverance

backing down can become a way of life

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Hard is the stone but harder still, the delicate performing will which guided by a dream alone subdues and molds the hardest stone....

I was heartbroken, but used to it; the patterns of struggle and failure in life tend to repeat themselves.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before they come to a standstill... The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,That was built in such a logical wayIt ran a hundred years to a day?

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

In the midst of the fire he stood, not like burning flesh, but like bread baking. Martyrdom of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna,

Combattete le debolezze e lavorate per superarle.

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...