Quotes About Perseverance

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Doing what is right, isn't always easy, nor was it meant to be. The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

T)his is precisely the importance of the world-view described in the Book of Changes: there is no situation without a way out. All situations are stages of change. Therefore, even when things are most difficult we can plant the seed for a new situation that will preserve within itself the present situation, though we must be capable of adapting and finding the proper attitude.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.

They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them.

After interviewing hundreds of people, I found out how people got over phobias. They all reached the point where they got fed up with being afraid.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

Turn frustration into fascination.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

How will it fill our souls with perpetual joy, to think that in the streams of this blood we have swum through the violence of the world, the snares of Satan, the seductions of flesh, the curse of the law, the wrath of an offended God, the accusations of a guilty conscience, and the vexing doubts and fears of an unbelieving heart, and are arrived safely at the presence of God!

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

Brethren, experience will teach you that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, unwearied labors, and experience.