Quotes About Perseverance

Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.

Who against hope believed in hope.

Prisoners of hope.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man