Quotes About Perseverance

Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Aspirations don't make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.