Quotes About Perseverance

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

For violent fires soon burn out themselves;Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

Perseverance, dear my lord,Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hangQuite out of fashion, like a rusty mailIn monumental mockery.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance.

I'll queen it no inch further,But milk my ewes and weep.

To perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon,Or dive into the bottom of the deep,Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time.

I'll not budge an inch.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.