Quotes About Perseverance

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

We must have hope or starve to death.

While we breathe, we will hope.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.