Quotes About Perseverance

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields–– harvests grace with joy.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

We knew how to combine our strengths in order to overcome our weaknesses, and how to live off faith when nothing else was available.

If it wasn't for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would'a been dead or someplace screamin' in a nut house a long time ago.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

You know what is before you. The whips and scorpions, the thorns without roses, the dangers, anxieties, and weight of Empire.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.