Quotes About Perseverance

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow!Thy element's below.

I will be the pattern of all patience.

I am almost out at heels.

For honor travels in a strait so narrowWhere one but goes abreast.

Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

I have had my labor for my travail.

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

The course of true love was never easy.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

don't understand the concept of retirement.

The fact of the matter is, I've been lucky enough to have life say "yes" to me, time and time again. Perhaps there's no way to control anything. Perhaps the best thing to do is work hard, hold on, and enjoy the view.

In this, the eightieth year of my life, I should be settling down, taking it easy, resting on laurels. Forget it.

i'm not always optimistic but i am always hopeful.