Quotes About Perseverance

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.

It's perfectly acceptable to survive, even if others didn't.

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

In your patience you shall possess your souls." Luke 21:19

This gift prevents us from weakening, from letting ourselves be disheartened, and it lifts up our courage in the midst of difficulties.

True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself.982

Thus trial causes hope to grow, and hope does not deceive us, for God does not abandon those who trust Him.

Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on

Reginald Hill

These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

Mit dem Selbstvertrauen ist es wie mit dem Quellwasser. Es versiegt nur selten. Wer sie findet, diese Quelle im eigenen Ich, kann sie ein Leben lang nutzen. Alles Suchen, alle Umwege sind nichts als Verirrungen im Labyrinth der Möglichkeiten. Rückschläge und der erlittene Neuanfang speisen das Vertrauen in uns selbst. Denn nicht der Durst, Leiden schafft Leidenschaft.

ÚspÄ›ch, který skon?í ve straÅ¡né katastrofÄ›, je nejhorÅ¡í ze vÅ¡ech porážek.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

That's the biz, Sweetheart.

those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

Yesterday's meditation raised doubts—ones that are too serious to be ignored—which I can see no way of resolving. I feel like someone who is suddenly dropped into a deep whirlpool that tumbles him around so that he can neither stand on the bottom nor swim to the top. However, I shall force my way up, and try once more to carry out the project that I started on yesterday.