Quotes About Perseverance

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk...

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

Ambition,The soldier's virtue.

This will last out a night in Russia,When nights are longest there.

It keeps on the windy side of care.

Macbeth: If we should fail—Lady Macbeth: We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

The painful warrior famoused for fight,After a thousand victories, once foil'd,Is from the books of honor razed quite,And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.

I am in bloodStepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

The beastWith many heads butts me away.

Let the end try the man.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?