Quotes About Perseverance

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.

I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!

Suffering tests the strength of faith.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

long; team ministry is the higher pathway. Are you in this for the long haul or just the short run? To judge a city or build one up?

If faith ever rises to manly vigour, it must be by enlarging the mind's acquaintance with the whole extent of saving truth. Believers who would be strong and healthy, must not be detained upon the milk of babes, but must aspire to strong meat, and go on unto perfection. For faith to be strong and conquering, we must have variety of food. The entire truths of religion must enter into the regimen.

On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life.

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

Don't worry; work!

I have received the cross from your hands. I have carried it, even as you have laid it upon me, and I will continue to carry it until I die. Truly the life of a devoted servant is the cross, but it leads to paradise. I have begun the journey of the cross. May I not turn back nor leave it.

Self-discipline is never simple.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor.

I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Weve gotta roll with the punches Learn to play all of our hunches. Makin the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition And learn to trust your intuition. Plowin straight ahead come what may.

You've worked hard for that flat gut. Trust it.

I have no individual goals. We play for one reason and that's to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I'm hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead." – Michael Jordan

Ik waande ons onschendbaar en als iets niet stuk kan, doe je er automatisch een stuk minder voorzichtig mee. Heel normaal, dat is menselijk. Nee, het is niet normaal, maar zo zijn mensen. Het onkwetsbare moet gekwetst worden.

We all lose sometimes. Life's plenty easy when you're winning. It's what you do when you're down. That's the real test.

I didn't have it in me," I say. "The minute I felt unsupported I gave up. I saw that to be a painter meant a lifetime of not being supported.