Quotes About Perseverance

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

Fail often and fail cheap.

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

I knew from rock concerts that people notice your reaction to mistakes more than they notice the actual mistakes, so I just kept singing—in gibberish. Eventually my mind cleared.

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

The life of man upon the earth is a warfare. Job 7:1 (Douay-Rheims) A

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trying of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. Jas 1:2–4

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other. It is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — St. Francis de Sales

that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go.

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Estou cada vez mais convencido de que o que dá ao ministério as suas motivações, perseverança, humildade, alegria, amabilidade, paixão e graça é a vida devocional daquele que está exercendo o ministério.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!

A difficulty is a light ; an insurmountable difficulty is a sun .

Le vent se léve! ... il faut tenter de vivre!

Le vent se lève, il faut tantrer de vivre = El viento se levanta, hay que intentar vivir