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Quotes About Perseverance

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.
~ Douglas Malloch
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
~ Dyan Cannon
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
~ Virgil
The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.
~ Janette Rallison
All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
~ Arnold Lobel
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
~ Paulo Coelho
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
~ Chris Gardner
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
~ Petar Dunov
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
~ Irving Kristol
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ Jim Rohn
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
~ William Blake
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
~ Willem de Kooning
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
~ Maxwell Maltz
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
~ Evita Peron
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
~ Martha Washington
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
~ John Mason Brown
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.
~ Jeff Olson
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
~ Alice Hoffman
True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
~ Daisaku Ikeda